The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. - Maya Angelou - Quotesmemo.com

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We naturally assume that our mental structures are universal. But I suppose an outside biologist looking at us would see something very different. He would see that, like other organisms, we have a narrow sphere within which we are very good, but that sphere is very limited. And that, in fact, the very achievements we can have within that sphere are related to lack of achievements in other spheres.

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Maya Angelou

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

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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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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

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