Maya Angelou Quotes About Joy

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

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Laughter, Blessing

• We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Laughter, Air

• It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

  Maya Angelou

  Eye, Fire, Swings

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.135, Random House

• The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

  Maya Angelou

  Joy, Feelings, Needs

• She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Struggle, Joy

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.206, Modern Library

• Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Space, Giving

  Beautifully Said Magazine Interview, beautifullysmagazine.com.

• My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Children, Joy

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