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.
MAYA ANGELOUWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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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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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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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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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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