Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

Maya Angelou

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

Maya Angelou

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Maya Angelou

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

Maya Angelou

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

Maya Angelou

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

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

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Maya Angelou

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

Maya Angelou

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

Maya Angelou

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Maya Angelou

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

Maurice Sendak

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maura Tierney

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

Marianne Williamson

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

Marianne Williamson

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Marianne Williamson

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

Marianne Williamson

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson

Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Mark Martin

Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.

Mark Lawrence

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

Mario Benedetti

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

Mario Batali

You have to live life to its full chorizo.

Marilyn Manson

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

Marilyn Manson

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

Michael Card

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

Michael Caine

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

Merle Shain

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

Melanie Chisholm

Everybody in life is a chameleon.

Meir Kahane

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.