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Love Quotes by Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou says love is the force that sets us free and can even pull the stars across the sky. She stresses that love must be honest, urging us to tell the truth as we understand it. She also reminds us that love and self‑respect keep us alive and help us rise above problems.

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I know something better is on the road for me.

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Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

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Have enough courage to trust love, one more time.

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Have enough courage to love.

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We are more alike than unalike.

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Life loves the liver of it.

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All great acheivements require time.

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Love recognizes no barriers.

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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

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You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them,

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Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.

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When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

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I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

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Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than…

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“The love of the family, the love of one person, can heal. It heals the scars left by society. A massive, powerful…

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Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling…

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“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.”

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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is…

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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings…

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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…

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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber...…

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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on…

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When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to…

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have…

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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced…

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Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you…

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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but…

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I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier…

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if…

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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love…

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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…

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Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our…

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“I said, “What do I think? That's what I'm asking you? What is there to think?” “Looks like he wants you to…

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“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to…

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Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that…

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“love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i went out…

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The future is plump with promise.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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