I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. -Maya Angelou

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You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. ― C. JoyBell C.

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Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone. — Taylor Swift

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Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. – Charles M. Schulz

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.- Maya Angelou

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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.- Maya Angelou

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Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

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A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. ― Haruki Murakami

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. ― Tom Bodett

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Sometimes, when you least expect it, you'll realize that someone loved you. And that means that someone can love you again! And that will make you smile. —Homer Simpson

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