Maya Angelou Quotes About Soul

• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

• As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Nursing, Opportunity

• Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
  Take up the battle. Take it up.
  It’s yours. This is your life.
  This is your world.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Years, Giving

• If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Soul, Old Love

  Maya Angelou, “Touched By An Angel”

• And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Space, Soul

  Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.48, Random House

• A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

  Maya Angelou

  Sympathy, Condolences, Together Again

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

• There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Soul, Mind

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

• Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Home, Eye

• When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Sleep, Soul

  Maya Angelou (2010). “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”, p.194, Hachette UK

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Not just how tall we are, or thin… but who we are internally… perhaps even spiritually. There’s something, which impels us to show our inner-souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Ocean, Writing

• The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Distance, Heart, Differences

• There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

  Maya Angelou

  Soul, Succeed, Courageous

• 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

• Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Stars, Rain

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Soul, Trying

• Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

  Maya Angelou

  Soul, Helping, My Soul

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