Maya Angelou Quotes About Phenomenal Woman
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
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Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.
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The desire to reach hearts is wise
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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
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It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.
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I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.
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Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive
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I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
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I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library
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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
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Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
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If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.
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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
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