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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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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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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
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In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.
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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.
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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
Maya Angelou
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
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