One must know not just how to accept a gift,
by Maya Angelou
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
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Sayings by Maya Angelou
Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou 
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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- Maya Angelou
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
One Sayings
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
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Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
We are all one - the web of life.
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One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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