QUOTES by Maya Angelou
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If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.
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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
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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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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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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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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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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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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.
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Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
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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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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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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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We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.
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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet 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 making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
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Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.
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