Maya Wisdom Quotes

#1. A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Haruki Murakami

#2. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

#3. Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer ... '
Well, isn't it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?

Epictetus

#4. The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

Ted Dekker

#5. I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

Maya Angelou

#6. 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.

Maya Angelou

#7. Real popularity is taking the time to love others, reaching out, and never being afraid to be the first one dancing. REMEMBER THE GIRL IN PEARLS.

Maya Van Wagenen

#8. In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

Maya Angelou

#9. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

Maya Angelou

#10. If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#11. Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.'
It was her version of Polonius' speech to Laertes. With that wisdom in my pouch, I was to go out and buy my future.

Maya Angelou

#12. Dying is easy, beloved. It is living that is difficult. The secret is to live fully, to embrace every instant of existence, beautiful and ugly, blissful and painful. And remember to dance between the worlds, for that is your heritage as a child of the infinite Oneness.

Leonide Martin

#13. Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.

Elvis Presley

#14. My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

Padma Lakshmi

#15. Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When

Maya Angelou

#16. The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

Ray Charles

#17. Ouch. Well, you know what they say - you always hurt the one you love. Or is that the one you hate? I can never remember. - Puck

Julie Kagawa

#18. It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

Jonathon Porritt

#19. No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

J.C. Ryle

#20. Does veganism require a "sacrifice"? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.

Gary L. Francione

#21. I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements.

Paul Fry

#22. We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Maya Angelou

#23. What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

Tansy Rayner Roberts