More Quotes by Maya Angelou
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.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
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.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.
If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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.
