I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. Maya Angelou More Quotes by Maya Angelou More Quotes From Maya Angelou I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial. Maya Angelou agefeelingsthinking What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain. Maya Angelou positiveinspirationallife I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. Maya Angelou breathingpositivelong I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.' Maya Angelou gratefullove-youinspiring If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Maya Angelou motivationalinspirationallife Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. Maya Angelou painoceandream I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou inspiringinspirationallife People will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou motivationalpositiveinspirational We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances. Maya Angelou growing-upignoranceracism It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. Maya Angelou forgivenessinspiringinspirational If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it. Maya Angelou blessingrealitymoving She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy. Maya Angelou strugglejoylying I've had rainbows in my clouds. Maya Angelou rainbowclouds I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe. Maya Angelou dreamhomebelieve To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents. Maya Angelou growing-upparentlife Anger is like fire. It burns all clean. Maya Angelou cleanfire Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me. Maya Angelou influence Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. Maya Angelou protect Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love? Maya Angelou finding-someonedaughterson Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right. Maya Angelou cryreasonlaughing
