![]() ![]() You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there.Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. When great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly, soothing electric vibration.Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.Patience alone will not build the temple. Seek patience and passion in equal amounts.Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens.As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. 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.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.We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road.We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. 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.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. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.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!.Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it.I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.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.Here are some of her most powerful quotes that will leave you inspired and empowered. ![]() ![]() She worked for the upliftment of women and black people throughout her life and dreamed of a society where everyone could find a place. Her empowering quotes reverberate in the work ethics of some of the most powerful women in America and around the world. One of America’s most loved poets and authors, M aya Angelou was a beacon of inspiration. ![]()
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