Maya Angelou Quotes

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

I have matured a lot.

In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am more compassionate, generous, and less judgmental.

I just want to show people I've matured, not just physically but mentally.

With time, you do get mature.

I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

My daughter has changed me. She has made me grow up quicker because I don't just have a kid, I have a baby girl. She has made me more patient. I am actually soft when I get around her. I don't think she changed me as a fighter, but she has changed me as a person. She has helped me mature.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.