Maya Angelou Quotes on Love and Life That Will Touch Your Heart

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” — Maya Angelou

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” — Maya Angelou

“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go!” — Maya Angelou

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou

“No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” — Maya Angelou

 “I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.”  — Maya Angelou

 “Everything in the universe has a rhythm. Everything dances.” — Maya Angelou

 “The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” — Maya Angelou

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” — Maya Angelou

“The need for Change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” — Maya Angelou

“You will face many defeats in your life but never let yourself be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

“I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.” — Maya Angelou

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”  — Maya Angelou

 “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” — Maya Angelou

“We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” — Maya Angelou

“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”  — Maya Angelou

“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”  — Maya Angelou

“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 you.”  — Maya Angelou

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is a strength.”  — Maya Angelou

“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.”  — Maya Angelou

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ― Maya Angelou

“Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.” — Maya Angelou

 “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” — Maya Angelou

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”  — Maya Angelou

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou

 “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you…!”  — Maya Angelou

“Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”  — Maya Angelou

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” — 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

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”  — Maya Angelou

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”  — Maya Angelou

 “I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”  — Maya Angelou

 “You only are free when you realize you belong no place, you belong to every place, no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.” — Maya Angelou 

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.”  — Maya Angelou

“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God, that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”  — Maya Angelou

“Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.”  — Maya Angelou

“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.”  — Maya Angelou

“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” ― Maya Angelou

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”  — Maya Angelou

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”  — Maya Angelou

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”   — Maya Angelou

“You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”  — Maya Angelou

“All great achievements require time.”  — Maya Angelou