Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
MAYA ANGELOUNothing will work unless you do.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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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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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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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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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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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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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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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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Live as though life was created for you.
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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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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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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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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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