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" Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. "
Maya Angelou
Cloud
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" In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?' "
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" Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. "
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" I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. "
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" I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading. "
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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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" If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. "
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" Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. "
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" Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything. "
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" If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. "
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" Create each day anew. "
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" I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful. "
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" If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it. "
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" To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. "
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" The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. "
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" It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational. "
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" A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. "
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" Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. "
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" The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. "
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" I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. "
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" I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well. "
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" There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. "
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" I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. "
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" Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. "
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" The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. "
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" I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved. "
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" It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. "
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" You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. "
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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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