Maya Angelou Quotes About Age

• Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

• I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Blessed, Yesterday

• When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.266, Random House

• Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

  Maya Angelou

  Loving Someone, Age, Lovers

  "16 Ways Maya Angelou Taught Us How To Love" by Taryn Hillin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

• We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Pain, Memories

• I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Feelings, Age

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.

  Maya Angelou

  Sunset, I Love Him, Loving Someone

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

• I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, "Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again." They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.

  Maya Angelou

  Sex, Sorry, People

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

• I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Age, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

• Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Age, Wake Up, Waking

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