Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
MAYA ANGELOUBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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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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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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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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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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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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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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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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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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