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Maya Angelou, may you continue writing and inspiring in Heaven...
Dr. Maya Angelou: Poet, Educator and Civil Rights Advocate Dr. Maya Angelou, 86, awakens in the ever after..... I am at a loss for words... |
It's a cleansing day.....
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How easy it is to get caught up in complaining about a chilly summer day ... instead ... be grateful for the green it brings and that winter is gone. Too quickly we wish for our children to grow up ... then .... we wonder where the years went and wish for moments back. Each time a frustration or irritation passes your thought wave ... stop and think for 5 things which you are grateful for ... notice how quickly the frustration melts away and life seems somehow brighter. - Jane Changes |
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Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
STILL I RISE
Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014 You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. |
"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik |
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. - Louise Erdich |
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The Journey by Mary Oliver
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...... but at the length truth will out...... ~Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice |
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~Irish Diplomacy.....:clover:
Telling someone to go to hell...and having them look forward to the trip. |
“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.” –Maya Angelou
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“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln |
A lion doesn't fear a fly.
~Yiddish |
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. Elizabeth Gaskell
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"There are all types of love in this world, but never the same love twice."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald "Chaos is an angel that fell in love with a demon." ~Christopher Poindexter |
"Move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food. Open your mind, get off the couch, move."
–Anthony Bourdain |
Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger, Only to someone who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you. Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive. Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me” There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness. -Hafiz |
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He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep in order to gain that which he cannot lose.
--Unknown |
How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval? Do you live an inauthentic life because you can't bear the thought that they might disapprove of you? Do you try to figure out how they would like you to be, and then try to become that, like a chameleon? In fact, you never really get their love. You turn into someone you aren't, and then when they say "I love you," you can't believe it, because they're loving a facade. They're loving someone who doesn't even exist, the person you're pretending to be. It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it, you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have. ― Byron Katie |
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“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
― L.M. Montgomery |
Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you add another person. — Bryant McGill |
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