Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Fall Quotes

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

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We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

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The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

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Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

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It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

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The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

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If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

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