The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I'm happy...I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that’s happy.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big joke, A dance that’s… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest… — 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
