Maya Angelou
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
It's never too late.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
No man is wise enough by himself.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Can you dig it ?
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
There's no crying in baseball !
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The loving are the daring.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
If it is to be it is up to me.