"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."

Angelou, Maya | Aggression | 8 bookmarks

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya | Defeat | 6 bookmarks

"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles | Hope | 22 bookmarks

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid | Hope | 38 bookmarks

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

Angelou, Maya | Anger | 4 bookmarks

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

Angelou, Maya | Life, Lust For | 2 bookmarks

"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."

Angelou, Maya | Jokes and Jokers | 4 bookmarks

"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya | Smile | 9 bookmarks

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya | Action | 15 bookmarks