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!
MAYA ANGELOULet gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
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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.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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