Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
MAYA ANGELOUSurviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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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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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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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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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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