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Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.
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 never get over the fear of writing.
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I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
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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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And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.
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People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.
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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
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Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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