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The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around...
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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The kindnesses … I never forget them. And so they keep one from becoming bitter. They encourage yo...
JEFFREY M. ELLIOT
Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its desti...
JOY LINCOLN
I feel very honored that I got a chance to work with Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey.
STANLEY CLARKE
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
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No entrance to paradise untill you believe and you don't believe until you like each others don't yo...
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Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
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I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou s...
FRED SAVAGE
The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu...
DORIS J TORRES
Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C.
Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, po...
MAYA ANGELOU
Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
MAYA ANGELOU
Soft you day, be velvet soft,
My true love approaches,
Look you bright, you dusty sun, <...
MAYA ANGELOU
Road to destination is often very straight with journey smooth, but majority has tendency to meander...
ANUJ SOMANY
The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b...
GARY F EVANS...
Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the w...
STEPHEN KING
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says...
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I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La S...
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On Love"

For even as love crowns you, so shall he crucify you.

Even as he is...
KAHIIL GIBRAN
The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
നിങ്ങളുടെ പല്ലുകള്‍ കൊണ്ട് നിങ്ങള്‍ ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings en...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Give people the benefit of the doubt, over and over again, and do the same for yourself. Believe tha...
LIZ NEWMAN
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Maya Angelou is a very prolific writer. You can read her stuff down once and sort of walk away, but ...
STANLEY CLARKE
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain...
MAYA ANGELOU
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural he...
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Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hear...
DONNA BRAZILE
Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s...
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Saying of the Prophet
Accusations
Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die...
IDRIES SHAH
Saying of the Prophet
Obligation to Learn
The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every ...
IDRIES SHAH
Saying of the Prophet
Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether h...
IDRIES SHAH
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MAYA ANGELOU
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed b...
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The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
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You cannot threaten a mad man with madness
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I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ...
JOSé MOURINHO
Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a ti...
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Follow your bliss
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing ...
NANCY ARROYO RUFFIN
People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only b...
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The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ...
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She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
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What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how...
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All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulat...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
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Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter.
STEVEN CUOCO
The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This...
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Saying of the Prophet
Tasks
Whoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his...
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Saying of the Prophet.
Lies, promises, trust
He is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise ...
IDRIES SHAH
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
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Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
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He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD
For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD
Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD
If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD
This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA
The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD
A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD
Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD
The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD
To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD
Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE
Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE
Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE
Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE
And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
THE BIBLE
He who works his land will have abundant food.
THE BIBLE
God helps those who persevere.
THE KORAN
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD