To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

Maya Angelou
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  2. Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. - Oscar Wilde

  4. To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. - Maya Angelou

  5. Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why?- Isn't it gorgeous? - Dave Eggers

More Quotes By Maya Angelou
  1. I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

  2. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

  3. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  4. First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

  5. We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life. Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes...

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