It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
MAYA ANGELOUBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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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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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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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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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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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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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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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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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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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 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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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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