"The main thing in one's own private..." - Quote by 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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“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.”
“We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.”
“Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.”
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“Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.”
“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.”
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“It's not sissy to show your feeling.”
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
“It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.”