More so, personally, her quotes have continually inspired me. In penning this post, the difficult task was narrowing down the quotes to the "most inspiring". Evidently, I could only get it to "40 to remember" because honestly, every word she spoke or wrote was worth a gazillion bucks.
1. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
2. If
you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your
attitude.
3. 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.
4. While
I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember
that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
5. 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.
6. Love
recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to
arrive at its destination full of hope.
7. Nothing
will work unless you do.
8. Courage
is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't
practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue
erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
9. Perhaps
travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry,
laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and
understand each other, we may even become friends.
10. Try to be
a rainbow in someone's cloud.
11. Prejudice
is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the
present inaccessible.
12. It is time
for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty
and there is strength.
13. 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.'
14. When
someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
15. There is
no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
16. All great
achievements require time.
17. We may
encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
18. Bitterness
is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all
clean.
19. You are
the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told,
forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that
I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
20. One isn't
necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage,
we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true,
merciful, generous, or honest.
21. A wise
woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
22. I'm
convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change,
start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones
that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some
good.
23. If you
have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
24. I learned
a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate
for myself and others like me.
25. I know
that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or
persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm
grateful that I'm heard.
26. I think we
all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
27. We allow
our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone
in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
28. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
29. What is a
fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what
you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take
full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you
occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
30. If we lose
love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
31. I work
very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I
believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
32. 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.
33. If you're
serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible
and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh.
Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
34. I love to
see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
35. If you
find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
36. A cynical
young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or
she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
37. I am a
Woman. Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that's me.
38. During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
39. Nothing
can dim the light, which shines from within.
40. Everything
in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Stay Inspired,
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