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#1

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

#2

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

tags: inspiration

8187 likes

#3

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination

7158 likes

#4

“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.”
― maya angelou

tags: humor, inspirational, life

6900 likes

#5

“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.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture

6240 likes

#6

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

tags: courage, love, trust

4356 likes

#7

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

3164 likes

#8

“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.”
― Maya Angelou

3027 likes

#9

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance

3227 likes

#10

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

tags: inspirational

2973 likes

#11

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational-quotes

2153 likes

#12

“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
― Maya Angelou

1954 likes

#13

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: aging, growing-up

1688 likes

#14

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
― Maya Angelou

1626 likes

#15

“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.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: being-loved, courage, laugh, love, loving

1615 likes

#16

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1653 likes

#17

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: truth

1421 likes

#18

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: love