Maya Angelou: Trending quotes

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;
to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.”

“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.”

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

“When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.”

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

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

“That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.”

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”