What Maya Angelou Has Taught Me

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.

~Maya Angelou

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. 

~Maya Angelou

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives. 

~Maya Angelou

Remember people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.  You may have a heart of gold --- but so does a hard-boiled egg.

~ Maya Angelou

Sometimes the people whom we've known for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever. ~Maya Angelou I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. ~Maya Angelou Any book that helps a child to form the habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ~Maya Angelou

xoxo,
Dana