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Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 7

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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Happiness, Laughter, Blessing

And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Taken, Love Life, Kids

I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

Self Esteem, Mean, Resilience

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Sep 24, 2013

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

Differences, Notes, Type

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.227, Random House

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

Important, Lasts, Last Time

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Life, Cancer, Anger

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

No one has ever become poor from giving.

Christmas, Giving, Poor

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

Hair, Important, Want

A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.

Ideas, Laughing, Black History

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

Stronger, Looks, Aging

Live as though life was created for you.

"Phenomenal: 12 Pearls of Wisdom From Maya Angelou" by Tai Goodwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.

Makeup, Blood, Order

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

Air, Differences, People

Source: www.npr.org

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

Positive, Struggle, Rights

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

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Love, Life, Romantic

Have enough courage to love.

Enough, Courage To Love

Twitter post from Nov 01, 2013

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

Mother, Children, Husband

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Friendship, Funny Friend, Waiting

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.36, Random House

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

Graduation, Space, Offering

Poem at 1992 Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, delivered 21 January 1993

I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

Grandmother, Years, Looks

Source: www.azcentral.com

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

Life, Spiritual, Invisible

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Inspirational, Music, Lonely

Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Love, Inspirational, Girl

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

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

Thinking, Effort, Might

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

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