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Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy. — Maya Angelou

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. — Maya Angelou

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. — Maya Angelou

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. — Maya Angelou

I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times. — Maya Angelou

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world. — Maya Angelou

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different. — Maya Angelou

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice. — Maya Angelou

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. — Maya Angelou

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

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you. — Maya Angelou

It is my neck and my life. I will live it whole or not at all. He — Maya Angelou

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet. — Maya Angelou

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. — Maya Angelou

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement. — Maya Angelou

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. — Maya Angelou

be a rainbow in someone else's cloude — Maya Angelou

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss — Maya Angelou

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. — Maya Angelou

Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall Life doesn't frighten me at all Bad dogs barking loud Big ghosts in a cloud Life doesn't frighten me at all. — Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for. — Maya Angelou

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it.
Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute. — Maya Angelou

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. — Maya Angelou

To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit. — Maya Angelou

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — Maya Angelou

In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then? — Maya Angelou

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides. — Maya Angelou

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. — Maya Angelou

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated ... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious ... love life. — Maya Angelou

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone. — Maya Angelou

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy. — Maya Angelou

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself. — Maya Angelou

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer. — Maya Angelou

We are here to love each other.
That is why you are alive.
That is what life is for. — Maya Angelou

Live life as if it were created just for you. — Maya Angelou

Your life is much more important that you can imagine ... it is your first treasure. — Maya Angelou

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. — Maya Angelou

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for. — Maya Angelou

Don't do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life. — Maya Angelou

Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living? — Maya Angelou

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. — Maya Angelou

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. — Maya Angelou

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

You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong. — Maya Angelou

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life. — Maya Angelou

Life loves the person who dares to live it. — Maya Angelou

I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. I — Maya Angelou

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait. — Maya Angelou

Life loves the liver of it. — Maya Angelou

Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job ... You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. — Maya Angelou

I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. — Maya Angelou

Life was cheap and death entirely free. — Maya Angelou

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life. — Maya Angelou

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. — Maya Angelou

Determine to live life with flair and laughter. — Maya Angelou

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style. — Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. — The Prophet Of Life

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. — Maya Angelou

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou

Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
A Brave and Startling Truth. — Maya Angelou

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. — Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance. — Maya Angelou

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. — Maya Angelou

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. — Maya Angelou

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style — Maya Angelou

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. — Maya Angelou

The only way out of something is all the way through it. — Maya Angelou

Success is loving life and daring to live it. — Maya Angelou

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry. — Maya Angelou

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now. — Maya Angelou

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. — Maya Angelou

When old folks laugh,
they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them. — Maya Angelou

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? — Maya Angelou

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story ... — Maya Angelou

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? — Maya Angelou

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. — Maya Angelou

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it. — Maya Angelou

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. — Maya Angelou