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Maya Angelou Quotes about Life

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Maya Angelou (1994). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, Random House Incorporated

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

Life, Sympathy, Spiritual

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 05, 2012

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. 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.

Life, Thinking, Clouds

Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.7, Hachette UK

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Life, Beautiful, Education

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.258, Random House

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

Life, Intelligent, Powerful Women

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

Inspirational, Life, Passion

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

Life, Success, Passion

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Life, Light, Opposites

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

Life, Matter, Hoping For The Best

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Inspirational, Life, What Matters

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

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Inspirational, Life, Courage

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 24, 2013

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

Life, Success, Loving Life

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Sep 16, 2011

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Life, Inspiring, Art

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 07, 2011

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Inspirational, Life, Smile

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Life, Powerful, Past

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Inspirational, Life, Thanksgiving

"5 Creative Ways to Deal With Life Transitions" by Kingsley Grant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2016.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Love, Funny, Life

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

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

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

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

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