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“Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Giving #Resentment #Burden
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“My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Son #People #My Son
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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”
-- Maya Angelou
#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring
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“There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Air #Differences #People
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“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Life #Intelligent #Powerful Women
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“I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Thinking #Giving #Patient
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“I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Differences #Notes #Type
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“There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Art #Thinking #Use
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“Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Mind #Identity #Stories
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“Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Fashion #Attitude #Who I Am
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“I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Grateful #Intelligent #Grudge
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“Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Wine #Glasses #People
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“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.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive
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“We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Growing Up #Years #Acting
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“I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Morning #Blessed #Yesterday
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“Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Heart #Ideas #Mind
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“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Relax #Problem #Calmness
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“My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Kindness #Generosity #Trying
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“Forgive yourself - no one else will.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Forgiving #Forgive Yourself
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“I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Memories #Good Memories
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Music #Loneliness #Space
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“I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Believe #Love You #Mean
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“Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Clouds #Rainbow
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“When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Writing #Stories #Down And
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“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Inspirational #Strength #Inspiring
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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.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Pain #Heart #People
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“I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Believe #Meals #Energy
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Inspirational #Motivational #Moving On
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“I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Years #Fifty #Twenties
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“If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.”
-- Maya Angelou
#Moving #Giving #Done
