Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.
— Maya Angelou
Massive True Life quotations
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS.
They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life.
Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
Life should be lived on the edge of life.
You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.
I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant.
Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons.
What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.
Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall