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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 5

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Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

Sad Love, Hurt, Realizing

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

Love, Inspirational, Life

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

Lonely, Gratitude, Attitude

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.32, Random House

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Breathing, Long, Too Late

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Grateful

"At 80, Maya Angelou Reflects on a 'Glorious' Life". "Weekend Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. April 6, 2008.

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

Doe, Problem, Lifts

A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.

Grateful, Heart, Spirit

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

Ignorance, Thinking, People

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Life, God, Collaboration

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

Past, History, Knows

Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.

Beautiful, Football, People

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

Wine, Glasses, People

Source: blues.gr

I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

Relax, Taking A Break, Problem

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.64, Bantam

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Life, Wise, Doe

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

Motivational, Responsibility, Light

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 20, 2014

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Inspirational, Life, Be Good

Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

Love, Courage, Loving Someone

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Inspiring, Death, Inspirational Life

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 02, 2010

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

Daughter, Mother, Brother

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

Fitness, Motivational Workout, Work Out

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

Inspirational, Life, Running

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

Love, Life, Positive

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 2013

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

Where You Are, Where You Are Going, Knows

"America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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