"First best is falling in love. Second..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”

“I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.”

“Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.”

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

“The hind that would be mated by the lionMust die for love.”

“Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.”

“We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.”

“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.”