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TOP INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM MAYA ANGELOU

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The prolific poet
and author, Maya Angelou passed away yesterday May 28, 2014 at the age of 86. She
was known for many things throughout her life: her wisdom, her acting, her
indefatigable civil rights activism. But more than anything else, Angelou was
famous for her writing. A look back at her most prominent quotes.
–         
If
you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your
attitude. Don’t complain.
–         
 I’ve learned that people will forget what you
said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you
made them feel.
–         
The
first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
–         
I
can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
–         
We
delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has
gone through to achieve that beauty.
–         
You
may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be
reduced by them.
–         
Courage
is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t
practice any other virtue consistently.
–         
 I do not trust people who don’t love
themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is:
Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
–         
 Success is liking yourself, liking what you
do, and liking how you do it.
–         
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.

–         
 Have enough courage to trust love one more
time and always one more time.
–         
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.
–         
Ask
for what you want and be prepared to get it!
–         
If
I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
–         
You
alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
–         
Stepping
onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a
situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
–         
Love
recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to
arrive at its destination full of hope.
–         
Life
is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able
to treat life as art.
–         
Hate,
it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
–         
 I believe that the most important single
thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
–         
Pursue
the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take
their eyes off you.
–         
 I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb
the world’s variety and uniqueness.
–         
You
should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.
–         
If
you’re always trying to be Normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Rest in Peace,
Maya.
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