More from Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Live as though life was created for you.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou 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.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou 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 AngelouMaya Angelou
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
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More on dare
Dare to be yourself.
Andre GideAndre Gide Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne My life was filled with multiple hurdles over which I continue to trip.
David GogginsDavid Goggins Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton