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"Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting."
"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."
"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting swimming fencing boxing walking playing dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink."
"Today, I don't want to ask for anythingI just want to give thanks for Everything I already have."
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
"Gratitude is only expressed and appreciated in proportion to your understanding of grace."
"Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose."
Explore more quotes by Maya Angelou
"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."
"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."
"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
"I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true."
"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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