“Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”
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Famous Maya Angelou Quotes
“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”
“Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
“Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.”
Source: And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive”
“Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.”
“Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.”
“Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.”
“You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.”
“No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.”
“When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?”
“I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now