You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
- Topic: Hope
More Quotes from Maya Angelou
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
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.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
More on Hope
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
