Maya Angelou Quotes

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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Forget Learning Life Love People Positive Special
Live as though life was created for you.
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Creation Inspirational Life Live One Liner
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Happiness Laugh One Liner Trust
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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Acceptance Challenge Convinced Deserve Herself Live Woman
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Happiness Laugh One Liner Trust
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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Funny Humour Love Time Virus
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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Believe Brave Courage Dare Discipline
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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Advice Change Complain Inspirational Life
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Amazing Healing Inspirational Let Go Normal Try
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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Give Up Life Love Passion Time
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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Change Inspirational Path Situation Step Woman
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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Acceptance Bless Chariry Cheer Compassion Gratitude
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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Hope Inspirational Life Prepare Surprise
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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Confidence Education Intelligence Knowledge Self Love
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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Decision Frozen Funny Humour Jump Lake Writing
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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Air Attitude Confidence Eyes Hate Inspirational Kill Rise Self Love Shoot
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Compose Life Poetry Stand Writing
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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Heart Inspirational Life Patience Prayer Wait
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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Allow Belief Faith Inspirational Myself Power Venture
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.
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Development Inspirational Live Philosophy Pleasure World
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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Dance Music One Liner Rhythm Universe
When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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Believe Duality Hurt Love Mask One Liner People Trust
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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Difference Fact Truth World
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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Change Mind Need Roads
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Hustle Inspirational Success Work Hard Yourself
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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Creation God Myself Realize Remember
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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Claim Herself Possible Stand Woman Women Women Empowerment

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