Quotes of Maya Angelou

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Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.

- Maya Angelou

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“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it. ”

- Kamand Kojouri

“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

“ True Love is not something that will ever happen in an instant....because the summary of our lives is not in an instant. Love at First sight is just infatuation. True Love.....is like a fine wine. It has layers upon layers of depth and flavor, all of which gets better if it is aged and cared for correctly. True Love is the gradual deep understanding of your Spouse, and a spiritual empathy towards them. As they get older, and change, you eagerly continue to turn pages of your lives together, studying and empathizing with a person that you do not need to be defensive or suspicious of. ”

- sangeeta mann

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho