Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
MAYA ANGELOUIf I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
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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.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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All great achievements require time.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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