Maya Angelou Quotes
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
Quotes to Explore
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
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Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
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First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
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Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.
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And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.
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Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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I went to school in Long Beach, and all the seniors I used to kick it with called me Pac.
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
