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Thoughtful Quotes by Maya Angelou
- All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring…
- Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
- For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries…
- You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high.…
- Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it.…
- I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is…
- I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat.…
- Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
- It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more…
- If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or…
- 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…
- I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and…
- Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
- We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
- The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...
- Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
- If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
More Thoughtful Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
- When love is not madness, it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
- When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order.… — Mario Batali
- Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to… — Melody Beattie
- It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. — Erma Bombeck
- We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. — Bono
- I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy… — Kate Bosworth
- Adversity is the first path to truth. — Lord Byron
- It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy… — Dale Carnegie