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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.
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Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
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By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.
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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.
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On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
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Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.
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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
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Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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