Maya Angelou Quotes, Life Quotes, Children Quotes

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

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Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

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The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

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I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

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I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

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