Maya Angelou Quotes, Love Quotes, Pain Quotes

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

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It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

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Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

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I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

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I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

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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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We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

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We are only as blind as we want to be.

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Yet it is only love which sets us free.

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If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.

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