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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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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.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!
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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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Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.
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To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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Poetry gave me back my voice.
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I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.
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Freedom is never free.
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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.
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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
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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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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.
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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
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