NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 594

 

• ·       “You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.'” - Maya Angelou

  ·       “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

  ·       “What I really would like said about me is that I dared to love. By love, I mean that condition in the human spirit so profound it encourages us to develop courage and build bridges, and then to trust those bridges and cross the bridges in attempts to reach other human beings. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” - Maya Angelou

  ·       “I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That’s it. That’s how you get to know who you are.” - Maya Angelou

  ·       “Those who have something to say accept the fact that that’s lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.” - 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

  ·       “If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing—dying—is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?” - Maya Angelou