Quotes of Maya Angelou

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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

- Maya Angelou

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“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ There will be tough workouts when the athlete has to really dig deep, believe, and not give up when the pain seems too much. The athlete can respond in one of two ways: Yield to the pain and selfdoubt or decide that fear will not determine his or her potential. It's hard (and usually uncomfortable) work breaking through old barriers and selfdefeating thought patterns to see meaningful progress, and fear is an absolutely natural response, but you can't let it become a limiter. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

- Rufus Wainwright

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ Relationships are like Rome difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ”

- Helen Keller

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ When we go into stillness we can hear our soul’s voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul’s melody with the world. ”

- Christina Goetz

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

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

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra