Maya Angelou Quotes About 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 into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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Love recognizes no barriers.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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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 Truth.
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I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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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 living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
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At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
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I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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