CHIEF SEATTLE Quotes

"All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth." ~Chief Seattle

"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man; the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports." ~Chief Seattle

“Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.”  ~Chief Seattle

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."  ~Chief Seattle

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."~Chief Seattle

"Take only pictures but leave footprints." ~Chief Seattle 

"The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.  Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." ~Chief Seattle

"The mountains are our brothers, the rivers our sisters, the air our breath, the land our kin. And we are all connected." ~Chief Seattle

“There is no death. Only a change of worlds.” ~Chief Seattle

“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit.”  ~Chief Seattle

"When the earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, the Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them." ~Chief Seattle

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Indira Gandhi Quotes

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave." ~Indira Gandhi

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." ~Indira Gandhi

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." ~Indira Gandhi

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress." ~Indira Gandhi

"We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible." ~Indira Gandhi on Prosperity

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." ~Indira Gandhi

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John Wayne Quotes

"Courage is being scared to death — and saddling up anyway." ~John Wayne

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~John Wayne

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Richard F Ames Quotes

"Developing one’s intellectual prowess—accumulating know-ledge—is an incomplete measure of success. God wants us to use our mind and intellect to learn true values and true knowledge. Unless we learn to practice true humility, our material knowledge may lead to intellectual vanity—a feeling of superiority and even of arrogance." ~Richard Ames

"Unless we learn to practice true humility, our material knowledge may lead to intellectual vanity—a feeling of superiority and even of arrogance." ~Richard Ames

"You cannot change the circumstances but you can change your thinking."~Richard F Ames, LCG Minister, Tomorrow's World TV Program Presenter

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Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

"It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.” ~Elizabeth Edwards

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before”. ~Elizabeth Edwards

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails." ~Elizabeth Edwards

"The days of our lives are numbered. We know that there are times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful." ~Elizabeth Edwards

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY Quotes

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." — Robert F. Kennedy

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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." ~Robert Kennedy

"You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution." ~Robert F. Kennedy

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Francis Gay - "one off"

"We are all 'one offs' and God cares for us individually. Each of us has his or her special place in the world, where we can do our best with the talents that He has given us."~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1981

Johann K. Lavater Quotes

"He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life." ~Johann K Lavater, Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa

"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything." ~Johann K Lavater

Vernon Sanders Law - hard teacher

"Experience is a hard teacher  because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."~Vernon Sanders Law~

Brooklyn Marie - help them up

"When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day."~Brooklyn Marie~

Bell Hooks Quotes

"It's interesting—the way in which one has to balance life—because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another."~ bell hooks (b. c. 1955), African American author, feminist, and human rights advocate. Outlaw Culture, ch. 19 (1994).

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape." ~Bell Hooks

"Love is a combination of care, commitment,  knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust." ~Bell Hooks 

"When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the Earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us." ~

BELL HOOKS

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Francis Gay - heroes

"The truth is that real heroes are never aware of being heroes. By their modesty, as well as their bravery, they set us all an example."~Francis Gay TFBFG 1979

Francis Gay - doubly worthwhile

"A good turn done grudgingly, out of a sense of duty, brings true reward neither to the giver nor the receiver. But when the good deed comes from the heart, when service is given with a smile, then a glow comes over life that makes what we have done doubly worthwhile."~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1979

Francis Gay - count our blessings

"It is a good thing for us to count our blessings and to be genuinely grateful for the simple things which we so often take for granted."~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1980

Karl von Bonstetten - old age

"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."~Karl von Bonstetten

Camil Seisanu - power and elegance

"I have always had a thing for horses, being fascinated by the combination between power and elegance, between force and grace. Even if my horses are hard working ones, raised and living in inappropriate conditions, I see beauty in every one of them."~Camil Seisanu, JPG Photo Essay, 'Equus' 2004-2009

Jean Kerr - marriage

"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else." ~Jean Kerr (b. 1923)

GEORGE SANTAYANA Quotes

"A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within." ~George Santayana

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." ~George Santayana

"Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience at the union of life and peace." ~George Santayana

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said." ~George Santayana

"Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine." ~George Santayana

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." ~George Santayana

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." ~George Santayana

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots." ~George Santayana 

“Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.” ~George Santayana

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience." ~George Santayana

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." ~George Santayana

"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to." ~George Santayana

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness." ~George Santayana

"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited." ~George Santayana

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." ~George Santayana

"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand." ~George Santayana

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality." ~George Santayana

"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself." ~George Santayana

"Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana

 

"Sanity is a madness put to good use." ~George Santayana

"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer." ~George Santayana

"The earth has music for those who listen." ~George Santayana

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." ~George Santayana

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame." ~George Santayana

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." ~George Santayana 

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." ~George Santayana

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." ~George Santayana

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." ~George Santayana

"To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful." ~George Santayana

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Francis Gay - friendly handshake

"The simple act of a friendly handshake can often say more than words. We are never speechless if we can shake hands."~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1983

Jesse Jackson - helping

"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up."~Jesse Jackson

NAPOLEON HILL Quotes

"All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths." ~Napoleon Hill

"Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?" ~Napoleon Hill

"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures." ~Napoleon Hill

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." ~Napoleon Hill, American Author Teacher (1883-1970)

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength." ~Napoleon Bonaparte

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action." ~Napoleon Hill

"Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along." ~Napoleon Hill

"Dreams are the seedlings of reality." ~Napoleon Hill

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." ~Napoleon Hill

"Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine." ~Napoleon Hill

"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit." ~Napoleon Hill

"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."~Napoleon Hill

"Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be." ~Napoleon Hill

"Failure is natures plan to prepare you for great responsibilities." ~Napoleon Hill

"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." ~Napoleon Hill

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." ~Napoleon Hill

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." ~Napoleon Hill

"If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven" ~Napoleon Hill

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." ~Napoleon Hill

“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” ~Napoleon Hill

"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth." ~Napoleon Hill

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." ~Napoleon Hill

"No one can keep you down but yourself" ~Napoleon Hill

"No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality." ~Napolean Hill

"One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man’s familiarity with the word impossible." ~Napoleon Hill

"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat." ~ Napoleon Hill

"One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others." ~Napoleon Hill

"Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds." ~Napoleon Hill

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." ~Napoleon Hill

“Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self' is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.” ~Napoleon Hill

"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday." ~Napoleons Hill

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." ~Napoleon Hill

"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best." ~Napoleon Hill

"The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim." -Napoleon Hill

“The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.” ~Napoleon Hill

"The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than all the fault-finders combined." ~Napoleon Hill

"The starting point of all achievement is desire." ~Napoleon Hill

"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun." ~Napoleon Hill

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another." ~Napoleon Hill

"Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things." ~Napoleon Hill, American author, 1883-1970

"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy." ~Napoleon Hill

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." ~Napoleon Hill

"We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts." ~ Napoleon Hill (c. 1883-1970)

"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." ~Napoleon Hill

CTTO   

"Without enthusiasm, one cannot be convincing." ~Napoleon Hill

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." ~Napoleon Hill

STRUGGLE

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." ~Napoleon Hill

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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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"Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys." ~Madeleine L'Engle

"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnett: You're given the form, but you have to write thevsonnett yourself." ~Madeleine L'Engle

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light." ~Madeleine L'Engle

"Peace is not placidity: peace is the power to endure the megatron of pain with joy, the silent thunder of release, the ordering of love. Peace is the atom's start, the primal image: God within the heart." ~Madeleine L'Engle, (1918-2007)

"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write,  is an effort towards wholeness." ~Madeleine L'Engle 

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." ~Madeleine L'Engle

"We can't take any credits for our talents. It is how we use them that counts." ~Madeleine L'Engle

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Ingrid Seward - right background

"If you come from the right background and went to the right school you know how to behave. All you have to do is know your place."~Ingrid Seward, Editor-in-Chief, Majesty Magazine, Making of a Princess

MAYA ANGELOU Quotes

"God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope." ~Maya Angelou (April 04, 1928)

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~Maya Angelou

"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent." ~Maya Angelou

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face." ~Maya Angelou

"A woman who is in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself." ~Maya Angelou

"All great achievements require time." ~Maya Angelou

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." ~Maya Angelou

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. " ~Maya Angelou

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." ~Maya Angelou

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." ~Maya Angelou

"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." ~Maya Angelou

"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us." ~Maya Angelou

“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” ~Maya Angelou

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances." ~Maya Angelou

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it." ~Maya Angelou

"God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope." ~Maya Angelou (April 04, 1928 - )

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." ~Maya Angelou

"Home is a refuge, not only from the world but a refuge from my worries, my terrible concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful, because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up." ~Maya Angelou

"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good." ~Maya Angelou (The Angelou Johnson Family)

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

"I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory." ~Maya Angelou

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.” ~Maya Angelou

"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." ~Maya Angelou

"I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to Breathe."
~Maya Angelou

"I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back." ~Maya Angelou on Support

"I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." ~Maya Angelou

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens or how bad it seems today, life does go on and it will be." ~Maya Angelou

"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

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life." ~Maya Angelou

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision." ~Maya Angelou

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." ~Maya Angelou

"I know I'm a good mother.
I care and I dare.
I care enough to let you go,
But I dare enough to follow you."
~Maya Angelou

"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you." ~Maya Angelou (The Angelou Johnson Family)

"I may cry and I will die, but my spirit is the soul of every Spring, watch for me and you will see that I'm present in the songs that children sing." ~Maya Angelou from the poem, "Uncle Willie".

“I sustain myself with the love of my family.” ~Maya Angelou

"If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart." ~Maya Angelou (The Angelou Johnson Family)

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

"If you're not angry, you're either a stone, or you're too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking about it." ~Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." ~Maya Angelou

"If you get, give. If you learn, teach." ~Maya Angelou

“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present. Gratefully.” ~Maya Angelou

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” ~Maya Angelou

"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric." ~Maya Angelou

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

"It still humbles me that this force that makes leaves and fleas and stars and rivers and you, loves me." ~Dr. Maya Angelou

"Imagine, I've had so many rainbows in my clouds. I've had a lot of clouds, but I've had so many rainbows." Be a rainbow in someone's cloud today." ~Maya Angelou, The Angelou Johnson Family.

"Let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good." ~Maya Angelou

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good." ~Maya Angelou

"Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive." ~Maya Angelou

"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."  ~Maya Angelou

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."" ~Maya Angelou

"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God." ~Dr. Maya Angelou, 23 May 2014 (her last tweet, five days later, she passed away in her home. RIP).

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.” ~Maya Angelou

"Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it." ~Maya Angelou

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope." ~Maya Angelou

“Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.”
~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

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart." ~Maya Angelou.

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~Maya Angelou

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within." ~Maya Angelou

"Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself." ~Maya Angelou

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends." ~Maya Angelou

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible." ~Maya Angelou 

“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.” ~Maya Angelou

"Shine on. Let nothing dim the light that shines from within." ~Maya Angelou

"Shoot me with your words. Cut me with your eyes. Kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I’ll rise." ~Maya Angelou

"Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed." ~Dr. Maya Angelou

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ~Maya Angelou

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise." ~Maya Angelou

"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change." ~Maya Angelou

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination." ~Maya Angelou

“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.” ~Maya Angelou

"There’s a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you, or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband. Nobody. Because that may be the place you go to when you meet with God. You have to have a place that you say, ‘Stop it! Back up!’ Because that place has to remain clean and clear." ~Dr. Maya Angelou (when asked by Oprah Winfrey what was the best piece of advice Dr. Angelou had ever given)

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth." ~Maya Angelou

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." ~Maya Angelou

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." ~Maya Angelou

"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color." ~Maya Angelou

"We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for." ~Maya Angelou

"We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognise that human beings are more alike than we are unalike." ~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

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." ~Maya Angelou

"We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share." 

~Maya Angelou 

“We need much less than we think we need.” ~Maya Angelou

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain." ~Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

"What you learn, teach. What you get, give." ~Maya Angelou 

"When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness." ~Maya Angelou

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~Maya Angelou

"When you learn, teach; when you get, give." ~Maya Angelou

"Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." ~Maya Angelou

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody." ~Maya Angelou

“You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” ~Maya Angelou

"You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights." ~Maya Angelou 

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." ~Maya Angelou

"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

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

"You may write me down in history, with your bitter, twisted lies;
You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'LL RISE!"
~Maya Angelou

"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it." ~Maya Angelou

"You’ll save yourself a lot of heartache and time if you stop making excuses for other people’s bad behavior and instead see them for who they really are, the first time." ~Maya Angelou

QUOTES WITH PICTURES

Cook Park Orange NSW
26 December 2010

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

RIP: 29 May 2014

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QUOTES FROM FAMILY

"Looking around at our world it is time to rebuild new bridges and reach each other with a love that can no longer be ignored or abandoned." ~The Angelou Johnson Family

"Our Matriarch taught us that anger is a tool to seek justice, be active and leave no room for bitterness in our lives." ~ The Angelou Johnson Family

"When you open your eyes and expect beauty you will be surprised by how much beauty is in each one of us." ~The Angelou Johnson Family

"With kindness, humor, and compassion we encourage you to continue." ~ The Angelou Johnson Family

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THANK YOU

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Thought for Today - treasure

"In order to divorce yourself from unhappiness, always keep the treasures of happiness with you." ~Thought for Today