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

““When Great Trees Fall”

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

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

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

“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.”

“A certain person wondered why”

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

““I know my heart will never be the same”

“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”

“If you don't like Cinderella because she seems so "naive" and "weak," listen to this quote from the Walt himself: "She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.”

“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”

““... so this is for us.”