Maya Angelou Quotes About Peace
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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
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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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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
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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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