Top 91 Maya Angelou Love Quotes
#1. Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
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#2. Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
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#4. Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.
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#5. When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness ... all the good things.
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#6. I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.
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#7. First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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#8. We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.
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#9. You can never be great at anything unless you love it.
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#10. If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.
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#11. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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#12. A Conceit
Give me your hand
Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.
Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.
For me
Give me your hand.
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#13. I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out of time.
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#14. The love of the family, the love of one person, can heal. It heals the scars left by society. A massive, powerful society.
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#15. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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#16. 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.
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#17. To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
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#18. The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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#19. I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
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#20. This book has been written to examine some of the ways love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths.
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#21. This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
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#22. Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
A Brave and Startling Truth.
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#23. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.
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#24. I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
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#25. I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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#27. Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes ... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber ... they're listening to poetry.
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#28. I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
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#29. I love you, Mom. Maybe now you'll have a chance to grow up. A
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#30. 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.
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#32. If we lose love and self respect for each other,this is how we finally die
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#33. You can only accomplish what I really love. Do not take the money as a goal. Instead, pursue the things you passionate about, and do good to others can not take my eyes off you
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#34. I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
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#35. My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
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#36. I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.
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#37. I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
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#38. It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.
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#39. Everybody in the world wants the same thing ... to be needed ... a job that he/she can do well ... to love somebody ... Everybody ... There's no mystery.
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#40. It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#44. I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.
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#45. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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#46. He watched her every move and when she left the room, his eyes allowed her reluctantly to go.
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#47. I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?
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#48. Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path.
Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides.
Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it
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#49. Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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#50. To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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#51. 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.
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#52. It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you. With those two things, you can go anywhere and everywhere.
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#56. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'
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#57. Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
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#58. Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
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#59. If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.
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#60. Life loves the person who dares to live it.
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#61. Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.
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#62. Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.
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#63. Exchange love for hate ... Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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#64. We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.
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#65. I have found that the platonic affection
in friendships and familial
love for children can be relied upon
with certainty to lift the bruised soul
and repair the wounded spirit
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#66. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.
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#67. In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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#68. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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#69. 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.
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#71. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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#73. The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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#75. My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.
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#76. If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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#77. It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.
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#78. You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.
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#79. I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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#80. Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.
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#81. Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.
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#82. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
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#83. 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.
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#84. When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
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#85. We are here to love each other.
That is why you are alive.
That is what life is for.
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#86. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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#87. During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.
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#88. Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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#89. The naturally lonely person does not look for comfort in love, but accepts the variables as due course.
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#90. Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.
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#91. The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
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