"Because of our routines we forget that..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.”

“You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.”

“A mother's love liberates.”

“Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”

“For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.”

“I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.”

“To rise at six, to dine at ten,To sup at six, to sleep at ten,Makes a man live for ten times ten.”

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.”

“Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.”