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Maya Angelou Quotes about Life - Page 2

All Maya Angelou Quotes Achievement Adventure Adversity Age Aging Appreciation Art Attitude Beauty Being Alone Birth Black History Bravery Cancer Challenges Change Character Children Choices Christmas Church Communication Community Compassion Confidence Country Courage Creativity Culture Dance Darkness Death Defeat Determination Discipline Diversity Dying Earth Education Effort Ego Electricity Empowerment Encouragement Encouraging Energy Ethics Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fighting Forgiveness Freedom Friendship Generosity Giving Glory God Grace Graduation Gratitude Growing Up Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Healing Heart Hell Helping Others History Home Honesty Hope House Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Identity Ignorance Inspirational Inspiring Intelligence Journey Joy Justice Kindness Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Life quotes Listening Live Life Loneliness Love Love Life Lying Memories Modesty Mom Monday Morning Motivation Motivational Moving On Music Overcoming Pain Passion Past Peace Persistence Pleasure Poetry Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Prejudice Pride Purpose Quality Racism Reading Reality Regret Respect Responsibility Romance Running Sacrifice School Segregation Self Esteem Silence Skins Sleep Son Soul Spring Strength Struggle Style Success Survival Sympathy Talent Teaching Thankful Thanksgiving Time Today Travel Trust Truth Virtue Waiting Wall War Water Whining Winning Wisdom Writing Yoga

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

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”

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

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Inspirational, Life, Second Chance

Twitter post from Mar 03, 2013

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Life, Art, Adventure

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”

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

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

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Life, Grace, Trying

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

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love, Life, Passion

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.797, Modern Library

When you know better you do better.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

Life, Growing Up, Parent

"Reflecting on joys and trials of being a woman", www.today.com. April 17, 2006.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

Life, Knowing, Women's Rights

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 06, 2012

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

Life, Sacrifice, Willing

We are only as blind as we want to be.

Life, Want, Blind

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

Life, Want, Good Things

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Life, Travel, Laughter

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

Life, Dance, Upset

Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.8, Random House

Life loves the person who dares to live it.

Life, Love Life, Dare

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.77, Random House

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

Life, Long, Laughing

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

Life, Courage, Loneliness

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

Life, Simple, Men

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.169, Modern Library

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