We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ― Maya Angelou

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The ache for home lives in all of us. — Maya Angelou

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For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

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Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple. - Dr. Seuss

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Never again would birds’ song be the same ― Robert Frost

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.- Maya Angelou

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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

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