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Maya Angelou Quotes about Life - Page 3

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

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Inspirational, Life, Heart

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 17, 2015

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Life, Soul, Old Love

Maya Angelou, “Touched By An Angel”

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Love, Life, Greed

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

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Not just how tall we are, or thin… but who we are internally… perhaps even spiritually. There’s something, which impels us to show our inner-souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Life, Ocean, Writing

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Life, Currency

Maya Angelou (1977). “I know why the caged bird sings”

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Life, Wisdom, Peace

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2010

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Maya Angelou (1993). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, Random House Canada

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

Life, Use, Birth

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 20, 2011

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Love, Inspirational, Life

Twitter post from May 08, 2013

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Life, Mother, Grateful

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.38, Random House

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

MAYA ANGELOU (1969). “I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS”

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Life, Dream, Cost

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

Life, God, Responsibility

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Life, Happiness, Inspiring

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 08, 2009

Life loves the liver of it.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

1977 Interview in Black Scholar, Jan- Feb. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

Life, Unseen, Evidence

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

Life, Motivation, Believe

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

Life, Believe, Home

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Life, Wisdom, Communication

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

Life, Children, Growing Up

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Life, Communication, Writing

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

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