Life Quotes Quote by Maya Angelou — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Soft you day, be velvet soft,”

“I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, "Death, where is thy sting?" with "It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.”

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

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“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.”

“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”

“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ("Words flew away like birds")”

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.”

“Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.”