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.
MAYA ANGELOUYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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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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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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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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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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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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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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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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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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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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