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Life Quotes by Maya Angelou

159 Life quotes by Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou says that the effort you put into life shapes what you receive. She notes that you can’t control everything that happens, but you can choose not to be broken by it. She also urges you to be brave, adventurous, and to trust life even when it feels tough.

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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

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Living well is an art that can be developed.

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Life loves the liver of it.

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Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

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Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

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Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

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The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

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Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

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I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.

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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

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Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves…

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If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.…

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The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

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Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling…

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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray,…

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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced…

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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no…

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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings…

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more…

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Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I…

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When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem…

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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try…

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“After that exercise, the ship of my life might or might not be sailing on calm seas. The challenging days of my…

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What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do,…

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It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well,…

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“Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good…

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“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always…

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Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and…

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I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to…

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“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants…

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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day,…

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The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered…

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have…

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When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My…

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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