You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
- Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was raised by her grandmother in Arkansas, and it was there that she experienced racism and discrimination.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
- My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
- It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
- If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
- Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others.