It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it. Maya Angelou More Quotes by Maya Angelou More Quotes From Maya Angelou Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. Maya Angelou lakes writing inspiring There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. 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. Maya Angelou life-lesson sleep thinking Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. Maya Angelou my-journey inspirational-life journey Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you. Maya Angelou honesty pain hurt I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. Maya Angelou let-me want world Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse. Maya Angelou reverse principles inspirational I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. Maya Angelou open-heart ive-learned inspirational Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out. Maya Angelou running inspiring book We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. Maya Angelou insperational wise inspirational First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. Maya Angelou i-love-you being-in-love falling-in-love Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. Maya Angelou laughing life long Live as though life was created for you. Maya Angelou Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. Maya Angelou turns made positive We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself. Maya Angelou strong-women rose running Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou practice remember-you courage You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage. Maya Angelou have-courage merciful consistency Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. Maya Angelou ears long thinking In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment. Maya Angelou disappointment winning order I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome. Maya Angelou girl kings dream I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up! Maya Angelou rose running world
