#Maya angelou positive quotes full

It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” “Determine to live life with flair and laughter.”.“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”.“Success is loving life and daring to live it.”.“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”.“If you don’t know what you’re here to do then just do some good.”.If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” “If you don’t like something, change it.“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”.“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”.“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”.People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.” “I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. “When great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly, soothing electric vibration.It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives.” “We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable.“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious.They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. “I know something better is on the road for me.”.I ask forgiveness of anyone whose feelings I may have hurt. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”.For a while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.” “It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices.“I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”.“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves, and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”.“Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.”.“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”.“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”.“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”.Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”.“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”.“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.”.

“Live as though life was created for you.”.“Be present in all things, and thankful for all things.”.“There’s no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”.“We need much less than we think we need.”.“We are only as blind as we want to be.”.“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space.“Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.”.The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” “It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.”.

It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”.“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”.“The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.”.“You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.”.“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”.“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”.

“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”.“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”.“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”.“Do the best you can until you know better.“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.”.“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”.“If we accept being talked to in any kind of way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best.”.