Maya Angelou Quotes on Life

11 quotes

  1. People will forget what you said People will forget what you did But people will never forget how you made them feel.

  2. We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

  3. Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.

  4. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

  5. Laugh as much as you can.

  6. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid. Let's go.'

  7. Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

  8. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

  9. My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.

  10. Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish- it is an imponderably valuable gift.

  11. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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