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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
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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.
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I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.
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I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.
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No one has ever become poor from giving.
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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
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Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt
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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.
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I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
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Give yourself time just to be with yourself.
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We are only as blind as we want to be.
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