Nia (Purpose) –On December 30th (COTS)

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
Prince
 
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
 
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
 
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Maya Angelou
 
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Rumi
 
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
 
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
King Solomon
 
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
 
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
 
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
 
He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
 
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou
 
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.
Isaac Newton
 
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
 
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.  
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
 
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Maya Angelou
 
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
 
I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affection and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.
Maya Angelou
 
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu
 
Its so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
Maya Angelou
 
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
Maya Angelou
 
A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
Sun Tzu
 
I got my own back.
Maya Angelou
 
 

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