Quotes about life
life heart giving
The heart that gives, gathers. Marianne Moore
life believe destiny
I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out. Megan McCafferty
life-lesson school thinking
I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth. Megan Fox
life down-and asking
There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust Him. What do you say we take God up on His offer? Max Lucado
life serenity heaven
Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life. Max Lucado
life garbage-cans your-future
Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now. Max Lucado
life-changing hands kind
God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change. Max Lucado
life-and-death learning-to-trust ready
I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life. May Sarton
life solitude breathe
Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe. May Sarton
life patience nature
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. May Sarton
life motivational broken-heart
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
life crazy sane
One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess. Maureen Johnson
life-is
I guess life is full of maybes. Maureen Johnson
life positive dream
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. Maya Lin
life-is-too-short draws breaths
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw. Maynard James Keenan
life country art
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development. Maya Angelou
life growing-up children
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. Maya Angelou
life mother grateful
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. Maya Angelou
life people demand
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible. Maya Angelou
life simple men
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. Maya Angelou
life unseen evidence
Faith is the evidence of the unseen. Maya Angelou
life mistake ignorance
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? Maya Angelou
life naked shirts
Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt Maya Angelou
life-changing would-be shapes
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape Maya Angelou
life long futility
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. Maya Angelou
life-changing glasses fifteen
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
life choices caged-birds
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
life growing-up years
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth. Maya Angelou
life dream facts
I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. Maya Angelou
life sports country
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective. Maya Angelou
life cities two
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing. Maya Angelou
life use birth
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone. Maya Angelou
life-is-like building ends
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. Maya Angelou