"If I'm here, I'll be trying to..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”

“Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.”

“The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”

“It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.”

“The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.”

“Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.”

“We get Comfort from those who agree with us, butwe get Growth from only those who don't agreewith us !”

“We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.”

“Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.”