Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
MAYA ANGELOUIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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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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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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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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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 did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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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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