Maya Angelou Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Shining Quotes

Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.

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If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

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In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

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When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

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Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

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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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We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

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Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

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Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

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Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

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We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

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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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One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

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