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 ANGELOUI’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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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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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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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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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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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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