If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
MAYA ANGELOUThe problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
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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.
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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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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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