In the words of Maya Angelou:
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.
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.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.
I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.
You build your 'courage muscle' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.
Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.
Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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.
I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.
Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.
No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.
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