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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
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    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: loneliness, music, refuge
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    Maya Angelou
    “Out of the huts of history's shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that's rooted in pain
    I rise
    I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: poem
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    Maya Angelou
    “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
    ― maya angelou
    tags: humor, inspirational, life
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    Maya Angelou
    “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “We need much less than we think we need.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: contentment
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    Maya Angelou
    “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: music
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  • #12
    Maya Angelou
    “I am a Woman
    Phenomenally.
    Phenomenal Woman,
    that's me.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: feminism
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    Maya Angelou
    “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: anger, bitterness, rage
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    Maya Angelou
    “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: antipathy, hatred
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    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspiration
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance
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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture
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    Maya Angelou
    “I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it.

    Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute. ”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
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  • #20
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Marianne Williamson
    “Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
    ― Marianne Williamson
    tags: happiness
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    Marianne Williamson
    “It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us...There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you...We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.”
    ― Marianne Williamson
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  • #23
    Orson Welles
    “We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
    ― Orson Wells
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: loneliness
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  • #25
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,
    but they, while their companions slept,
    were toiling upward in the night.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: encouragement, inspirational, work
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  • #27
    Mother Teresa
    “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: hope, religious, spiritual
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  • #28
    Mother Teresa
    “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, love, smile
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  • #29
    Mother Teresa
    “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: biography, inspirational-love, spirituality
    667 likes

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  • #30
    Mother Teresa
    “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: incrementalism
    547 likes



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