Maya Angelou Quotes, Life Lesson Quotes, Sleep Quotes

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. 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.

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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

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Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

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The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

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The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

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In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

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If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

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It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

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