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love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it

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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

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Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.

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When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

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I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

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What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself

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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill...

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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

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We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American.

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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

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See, you dont have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then youll do it without thinking.

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Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

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