I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
MAYA ANGELOUBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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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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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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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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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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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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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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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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All great achievements require time.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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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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Live as though life was created for you.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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