Maya Angelou Quotes Page 2

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
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Words of Encouragement |

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
Maya Angelou, Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female
Blame |

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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Funny Quotes |

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Death |

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.
Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
Miracle |

A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
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God |

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
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Hope |

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
Maya Angelou
Prayer |

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me, because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today.
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Quotes about Overcoming |

. . . love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths.
Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
Possibilities Quotes |

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.
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Courage |

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. Maya Angelou
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Laughter |

I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman
Trust |

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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Blessed |

I, on the other hand, was a little-known night-club singer, who was said to have more determination than talent.
Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman
Determination |

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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Music Quotes |

All great achievements require time.
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Time Quotes |

Love Is Internal.
Maya Angelou, The Detached
Love Quotes |

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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Giving Quotes |

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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Accomplishment Quotes |

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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Motivation Quotes |

This is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing.
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Quotes about Life |

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.
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Purpose Quotes |

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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Communication Quotes |

When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor’s gift.
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Helping Others Quotes |

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
Smile Poems |

Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.
Maya Angelou, Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Happiness |

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