Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Maturity Quotes

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

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This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

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Change begets change.

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Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

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If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Love Quotes , Inspirational Quotes

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

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Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

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