Maya Angelou

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Be confident, not certain

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.