Maya Angelou Quotes About Inspirational
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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Life loves the liver of it.
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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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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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You can never be great at anything unless you love it.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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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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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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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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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
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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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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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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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I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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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 need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.
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