I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.'… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i went out… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“He was right. I would only eke out a living as a singer. The limited success I had, which Bailey recognized, stemmed… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Image
