I try to see every day as a celebration. Maya Angelou More Quotes by Maya Angelou More Quotes From Maya Angelou If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well. Maya Angelou daughter brother mother When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise. Maya Angelou down-and stories writing Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. Maya Angelou wall passion patience How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Maya Angelou strong-women veterans-day courage Shakespeare must be a black girl. Maya Angelou black-girl black girl Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates. Maya Angelou ego Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure. Maya Angelou unsure one-thing love-is I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. Maya Angelou rainy-day yoga heart As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel. Maya Angelou nursing heart opportunity Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. Maya Angelou falling-in-love beautiful art I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done. Maya Angelou ice phones dog Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Maya Angelou upset dance life 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. Maya Angelou religious jobs children We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community. Maya Angelou community brother past Don't bring negative to my door. Maya Angelou attitude positive inspirational We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else. Maya Angelou creativity kids years The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. Maya Angelou space offering graduation Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. Maya Angelou reading writing giving Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. Maya Angelou inspiring life art In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou strength beauty inspirational
