Maya Angelou Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Distance Quotes

Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

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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 would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

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Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was."

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Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

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If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

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I sustain myself with the love of family.

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Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

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My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

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Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."

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A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

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Being a woman is hard work.

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