Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
MAYA ANGELOUHate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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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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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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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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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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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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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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