“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“All great achievements require time.”
“I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.”
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
“We are only as blind as we want to be.”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“I got my own back.”
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
“It is a great blessing to have lived in the time of Martin Luther King, Jr., when forgiveness and generosity of spirit encouraged our citizenry to work for a better world for everybody.”
“I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.”
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
“I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.”
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
“Faith is the evidence of the unseen.”
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
“Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.”
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.”
“I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”
“If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
“We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”
“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.”
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
“I believe that every person is born with talent.”
“If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.”
“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.”
“Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.”
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou
“At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.” – Maya Angelou
“Life loves the liver of it.”
“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
“I created myself. I have taught myself so much.”
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.”
“I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.”
“All great achievements require time.”
“I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.”
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.”
“I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.”
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”
“The only thing is, people have to develop courage.”
“A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.”
“Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.”
“Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.”
“We need much less than we think we need.”
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
“It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” – Maya Angelou
“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.”
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
“Stand up straight and realize who you are. That you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.”
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
I believe that every person is born with talent.”
“The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible.”
“Determine to live life with flair and laughter.”
“Let me float across the sky ’til I can rest again.”
“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains, or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.”
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
“I love the song ‘I Hope You Dance’ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.”
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
“Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
“I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.”
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, “That’s life.”
“It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.”
“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”
“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.”
“There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
“In all my work, I try to say, ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?.”
“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.”
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
“I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.”
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
“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 still.”
“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”
“A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
“Be present in all things, and thankful for all things.”
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.”
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
“Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently.”
“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
“Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.”
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
“You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.”
“At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.”
“My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.”