Maya Angelou Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

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I live in an atmosphere of music.

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Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

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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.

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If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.

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Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

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I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

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Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

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We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

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