A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
MAYA ANGELOUNever make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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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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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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All great achievements require time.
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I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your 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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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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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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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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