Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOUNever make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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