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#1

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people

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#2

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#3

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
― Maya Angelou

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#4

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

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#5

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

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#6

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: courage, love, trust

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#7

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
― Maya Angelou

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#8

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
― Maya Angelou

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#9

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
― Maya Angelou

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#10

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: anger, bitterness, rage

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#11

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
― Maya Angelou

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#12

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: change, inspirational, self-determination

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#13

“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.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational

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#14

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#15

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#16

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#17

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#19

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#20

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#21

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#22

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

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#23

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#24

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#25

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#26

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#27

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

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#28

“Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're capable of. So I'm going to make you work.”
― Kay Wills Wyma, Cleaning House: A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement

tags: cleaning, entitlement, kids, parenting, work

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#29

“I remember looking at him lying there in a small pool of blood and thinking ‘oh well, that’s the end of his nonsense”
― Fiona Barton, The Widow

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