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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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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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Thank you, always say thank you it's the greatest gift you can give someone because thank you is what you say to God.
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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.
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I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
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When we know better, we do better.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.
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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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All great acheivements require time.
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I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.
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There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends
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Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
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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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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
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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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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
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