“Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When women take care of their health they become their own best friend. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them, — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
