I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOUI’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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All great achievements require time.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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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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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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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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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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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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