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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    Maya Angelou
    “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
    I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
    But when I start to tell them,
    They think I'm telling lies.
    I say,
    It's in the reach of my arms
    The span of my hips,
    The stride of my step,
    The curl of my lips.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally.
    Phenomenal woman,
    That's me.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
    tags: phenomenal-woman
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: family-relationships, parents-and-children
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    Maya Angelou
    “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “Out of the huts of history's shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that's rooted in pain
    I rise
    I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: poem
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    Maya Angelou
    “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.”
    ― Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
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    Maya Angelou
    “As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Maurice Switzer
    “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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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: love
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: love, simile
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: inspirational, reason, sorrow, trial
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel
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    Shana Abe
    “I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”
    ― Shana Abe
    tags: love, romance
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    Meg Cabot
    “The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”
    ― Meg Cabot, Princess in Training
    tags: romance
    1601 likes



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