Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anythi…

Maya Angelou
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. ✨ Maya Angelou (2012). The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, p.220, Modern Library
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. ✨ Maya Angelou (2008). Letter to My Daughter, p.5, Random House
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. ✨ Twitter post from Jul 31, 2015

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. ✨ Maya Angelou (2012). The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, p.220, Modern Library

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