QUOTES: 9 life lessons from Maya Angelou

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
''If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.''
''You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.'
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
''We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.''
''You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.''
''Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.''
QUOTES: 9 life lessons from Maya Angelou''If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.''
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In honor of the life of author and poet Maya Angelou, we look back at some words of wisdom we can all relate to. Angelou died May 28.