Maya Angelou Quotes

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

I won't look back and say 'I wish I could change things.'

For me, I have nobody who I hate. I don't have place for hate in life.

I am seeking to be positive, have integrity, and speak with grace.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.