Maya Angelou Quotes, I Love You Quotes, Falling In Love Quotes

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , I Love You Quotes , Falling In Love Quotes

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Want Quotes , Admire Quotes

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Travel Quotes

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , People Quotes , Months Quotes

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Grandmother Quotes , Men Quotes

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Courage Quotes

If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Moving Quotes , Reality Quotes

Life loves the liver of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Strength Quotes

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Black Quotes , Church Quotes

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivational Quotes

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Waking Quotes , Wake Up Quotes

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Mother Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Generosity Quotes

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Mother Quotes

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Want Quotes , Honest Quotes

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Allies Quotes

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Children Quotes

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Spring Quotes , Sea Quotes