"The real difficulty is to overcome how..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.
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“Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.”
“When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.”
“We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.”
More on Self Perception
“It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here.”
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
“Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.”
More on Growth
“Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.”
“Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.”
“Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.”