Maya Angelou Quotes
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201. “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”

— Maya Angelou

202. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.”

— Maya Angelou

203. “Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.”

— Maya Angelou

204. “Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

206. “Being a woman is hard work.”

— Maya Angelou

207. “It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.”

— Maya Angelou

208. “A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.”

— Maya Angelou

209. “Give yourself time just to be with yourself.”

— Maya Angelou

210. “Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold, that’s ego. Love liberates.”

— Maya Angelou

211. “My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.”

— Maya Angelou

212. “Forgive yourself – no one else will.”

— Maya Angelou

213. “I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.”

— Maya Angelou

214. “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.”

— Maya Angelou

215. “Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

217. “A mother’s love liberates.”

— Maya Angelou

218. “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

— Maya Angelou

219. “You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.”

— Maya Angelou

220. “When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.”

— Maya Angelou

221. “Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister’s eyes, Into your brother’s face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

223. “If you have, give. If you learn, teach.”

— Maya Angelou

224. “You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong.”

— Maya Angelou

225. “Still, when it looked like the sun wasn’t going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.”

— Maya Angelou

226. “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.”

— Maya Angelou

227. “Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.”

— Maya Angelou

228. “I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.”

— Maya Angelou

229. “The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.”

— Maya Angelou

230. “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.”

— Maya Angelou

231. “Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”

— Maya Angelou

232. “I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

— Maya Angelou

233. “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

— Maya Angelou

234. “We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.”

— Maya Angelou

235. “I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”

— Maya Angelou

236. “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.”

— Maya Angelou

237. “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.”

— Maya Angelou

238. “In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.”

— Maya Angelou

239. “I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.”

— Maya Angelou

240. “Age is nothing; waking up is everything.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

242. “The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”

— Maya Angelou

243. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”

— Maya Angelou

244. “Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.”

— Maya Angelou

245. “The most important thing is to DARE.”

— Maya Angelou

246. “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.”

— Maya Angelou

247. “Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.”

— Maya Angelou

248. “My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.”

— Maya Angelou

249. “As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.”

— Maya Angelou

250. “Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.”

— Maya Angelou