Maya Angelou
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.Collection: Space
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Inspirational
Every journey begins with a single step.Collection: Running
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Collection: Inspirational
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Hope
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Would Be
No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.Collection: Inspirational
Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'Collection: Being Strong
I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Life
If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.Collection: Legacy
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.Collection: Inspirational
You never get over the fear of writing.Collection: Writing
Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.Collection: Cute
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?Collection: Life
Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirtCollection: Life
They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.Collection: Having Hope
The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.Collection: Thinking
Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.Collection: Mean
I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.Collection: Thinking
Yet it is only love which sets us free.Collection: Be Brave
Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.Collection: Raises
The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.Collection: Nice
Life sometimes gives you a second chance.Collection: Second Chance
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.Collection: Hero
I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.Collection: Blessed
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.Collection: Grateful
Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.Collection: Laughing
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.Collection: Mother
Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.Collection: Want
Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.Collection: Buffets
Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.Collection: Music
Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.Collection: Lakes
There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.Collection: Mom
I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, "Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again." They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.Collection: Sex
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.Collection: Trying
I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.Collection: Giving
We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.Collection: Aliens
Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.Collection: Christian
Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.Collection: Laughter
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.Collection: Christmas
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.Collection: Friendship
We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.Collection: Growing Up
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.Collection: Music
Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights.Collection: Religious