Maya Angelou Quotes About Blessings

• When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Laughter, Blessing

• I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Sex, Children

  "Maya Angelou Called On New York State Senators To Back Gay Marriage In 2009" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

• The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

  Maya Angelou

  Blessing, Thinking, Clouds

• My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Son, Blessing

• Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Blessing, Trouble

• My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Son, Gay

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Reality, Blessing

• Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

  Maya Angelou

  Philosophy, Blessing, Medicine

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