Maya Angelou Quotes About Love
Maya Angelou was an author, poet, and civil rights activist who is best known for her autobiographical works. Throughout her life, she was an outspoken advocate for love and compassion. In honor of what would have been her 90th birthday, here are some of her most memorable quotes about love. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” – Maya Angelou. For more Maya Angelou quotes about love, click here.
Maya Angelou Quotes About Love
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“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
― Maya Angelou
“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou
“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.” – Maya Angelou
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.” – Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Quotes About Love
“Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.”
― Maya Angelou
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
― Maya Angelou
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” – Maya Angelou
“In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” – Maya Angelou
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Quotes About Women
“The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.” – Maya Angelou
“Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.” – Maya Angelou
“You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’” – Maya Angelou
“I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.” – Maya Angelou
“I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.” – Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Quotes About Life
“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.” – Maya Angelou
“Life loves the liver of it.” – Maya Angelou
“Love is that condition in the healing spirit so profound that it allows us to forgive.”
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Quotes Love
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou
“Love knows no barriers. jumps hurdles, leaps high above fences, penetrates unbreakable walls to reach its destination full of hope for a brighter future”.
“Love can be used for anything you can explain, any good thing that you can explain”.
“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by larger society”.
“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
― Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Quotes on Love
“I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all who open our heart to welcome it.
“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because loving someone liberates. Love liberates our soul, body, and spirit. Love does not just hold—that’s ego. Love liberates instead of binding. Love says, ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go.”
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
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“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.”
― Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Quotes About Life
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
“Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Quotes Courage
“You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for”
― Maya Angelou
“I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better.”
― Maya Angelou
“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”
― Maya Angelou
“If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
― Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was an incredibly wise woman who understood the power of love. Her quotes about love are some of the most beautiful and inspiring words ever spoken. They remind us that love is the most important thing in life and that we should never give up on it.
