The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
MAYA ANGELOUBe present in all things and thankful for all things.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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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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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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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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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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