“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.” ~ Maya Angelou “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.” ~ Maya Angelou Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.”~ Maya Angelou BONUS: Maya Angelou Quotes “Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren’t, we should behave as though we are - cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Each of us has the power to change lives. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”~ Maya Angelou 21. “We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou 20. “All great achievements require time.”~ Maya Angelou 19.

“Nothing will work unless you do.”~ Maya Angelou 18. “I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.”~ Maya Angelou 17. Making a living is not the same as making a life. “If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou 16. You weren’t born to blend in, you were born to stand out. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”~ Maya Angelou 15. What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. “There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. Appreciate everything while you still have it. “I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.”~ Maya Angelou 14. Your parents will always be your parents. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”~ Maya Angelou 13. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. What that is, is aging.” ~ Maya Angelou 12. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. There’s a difference between merely aging and growing up. “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 11. “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

Life isn’t about surviving but about thriving. “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?” ~ Maya Angelou 6. “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.” You can only love others as much as you love yourself. You might find a new solution.”~ Maya Angelou 5. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. Make every effort to change things you do not like. Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”~ Maya Angelou 4. “I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody.

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