I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
MAYA ANGELOUI don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
MAYA ANGELOUSurviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
MAYA ANGELOUHate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
MAYA ANGELOUA friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
MAYA ANGELOUWomen should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
MAYA ANGELOUSuccess is loving life and daring to live it.
MAYA ANGELOUThere is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
MAYA ANGELOUWithout courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
MAYA ANGELOUThe best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
MAYA ANGELOUI’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
MAYA ANGELOUAll great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOUMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOUWhen we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
MAYA ANGELOUI’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
MAYA ANGELOUIt is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
MAYA ANGELOUIf you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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