Maya Angelou Quotes About Heart
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.
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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.
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The desire to reach hearts is wise
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.
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I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.
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As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.
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Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into the palms of your hands. Mold it into the shape of your most Private need. Sculpt it into The image of your most public self. Lift up your hearts Each new hour holds new chances For a new beginning.
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.
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Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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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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A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.
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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.
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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
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The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
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Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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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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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
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