More from Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou 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 AngelouMaya Angelou Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou
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With new relationships, we get scared of being loved because we scared of rejection. Don’t let your fears ruin a perfectly good relationship.
Emily BockEmily Bock I love having someone to talk to all night.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith It is a loud war to love you in silence.
Noor BazziNoor Bazzi Don’t let unimportant people have too much power over you.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park Remember that your purpose is indeed to be nothing else but YOU, all that you are and all that you want to be.
ShamaShama I like the crazy ones- the ones made of a little bit of human and a lot of star.
Lauren EdenLauren Eden Let go and trust in the higher power to guide you.
Lisa RoseLisa Rose Let the music fill the empty patches of your soul. And heal you.
Makenzie CampbellMakenzie Campbell
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More on achievement
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
Howard SchultzHoward Schultz He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz I believe that for the most part, achieving success – whatever that is for you – is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.
Ray DalioRay Dalio Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
Howard SchultzHoward Schultz Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
James ClearJames Clear You do not know what you can achieve until you try.
Nick VujicicNick Vujicic We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
Al GoreAl Gore I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
Cicely TysonCicely Tyson
