Maya Quotes

#1. Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#2. Alaric grunted. Someone should tell her
that. I'm telling you, Ewan, she said nothing.
She stared at me like I was some kind of
toad. Worse, she had Crispen acting like I
was the enemy. The two whispered like
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conspirators and glared at me when I dared
intervene. #Quote by Maya Banks

#3. A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#4. In that moment, she realized that she loved this man. #Quote by Maya Banks

#5. You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated ... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious ... love life. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#6. A woman who's survived all you've survived doesn't cry. She holds her head up and dares the world around her to fuck with her. #Quote by Maya Banks

#7. Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#8. There is a much-loved region in the American fantasy where pale white women float eternally under black magnolia trees, and white men with soft hands brush wisps of wisteria from the creamy shoulders of their lady loves. Harmonious black music drifts like perfume through this precious air, and nothing of a threatening nature intrudes.

The South I returned to, however, was flesh-real and swollen-belly poor. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#9. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#10. Our people are in need of truth and I have tried and will continue to try to speak only truth to the people. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#11. I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#12. Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#13. Don't hide from me, honey. You're so beautiful. You take my breath away. Never hide from me. You're too beautiful for that. #Quote by Maya Banks

#14. When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor. #Quote by Maya Tiwari

#15. You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#16. Success is loving life and daring to live it. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#17. Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#18. From what they've told me, I definitely think it's a good idea for you to go. But I'll be very disappointed if you don't come home shitfaced in a sexy dress and fuck-me shoes. It's all I've been tortured with ever since the last time they all went out. Now that I get to participate firsthand, have to say I'm looking forward to it. #Quote by Maya Banks

#19. Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#20. People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#21. Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#22. I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#23. I've been patient. I've let you run. But I'm not letting you run any longer. #Quote by Maya Banks

#24. I'm listening now, Kelly," he forced out. "Tell me what happened. I'll believe you. I swear."

But he knew. He already knew. So much of that day was replaying over and over in his head and suddenly he was able to see so clearly what he'd refused to see before.

And it was killing him.

His brother had lied to him after all. Not just lied but he'd carefully orchestrated the truth and twisted it so cleverly that Ryan had been completely deceived.

Then she turned, her beautiful eyes haunted, defeated. "It doesn't matter if you believe me anymore," she whispered. "You wouldn't believe me when it mattered. He tried to rape me. He assaulted me. He touched me. He hurt me. And when I fought him off and told him that I would tell you what he'd done, he told me he'd make sure you never believed a word of any of it.

"And you know what the funny thing is? I told him he was wrong. I told him that you l-loved me and that you would make him pay for hurting me."

She broke off as another sob racked her.

Oh God. Oh God. What had he done? #Quote by Maya Banks

#25. It was a little light, but she aimed it directly at the gloom of ignorance. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#26. In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#27. Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#28. The development of personal awareness is the only thing the human person can control, and once we understand that, a lot of the appendages fall away, and we look at purpose and karma and not get besotted by the karmas of other people because we carry them from life to life and year to year and day to day. #Quote by Maya Tiwari

#29. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#30. He kissed her temple, nuzzling her skin, and murmured again that she was the most beautiful lass in the world. They weren't just words he offered. Platitudes he didn't mean. He cared not about the scar that marred her face. In his eyes, she was the most beautiful lass he'd ever known and nothing would change that. Not a scar. Not circumstances. She was his, and he didn't give one damn what others thought. #Quote by Maya Banks

#31. Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#32. It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#33. It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#34. To girls' night out! #Quote by Maya Banks

#35. But the Russian writers would be packed away in mothballs and stored in our basement. I would savor the idea of Dostoevsky's, Tolstoy's and Gorki's volumes molding in the dank cellar, wisps of camphor and odors of wet earth floating above them. I #Quote by Maya Angelou

#36. Done and done," P.J. said curtly. "Both front towers are clear. Giddy up, cowboys. Let's rope the goat and get back home. #Quote by Maya Banks

#37. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm. #Quote by Maya Banks

#38. Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?"
"Well I would if you'd let me finish," he grumbled. #Quote by Maya Banks

#39. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#40. You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#41. Don't face the day until you've faced God. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#42. I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless ... And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#43. He found himself playing the love-sick fool vying for a crumb of attention or approval from Genevieve. Anything to make her smile. Make her happy. He'd give her the damn moon if that was what it took. #Quote by Maya Banks

#44. People will not remember what you say. People will not remember what you do. They will always remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou... #Quote by Mollie Bickle Cardwell

#45. I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. #Quote by Maya Rudolph

#46. The world as it appears to us through our mind and senses is seen as an illusion (maya). That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, but that it doesn't represent the Truth, the Real. #Quote by Hridaya Yoga

#47. Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#48. Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#49. Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady. #Quote by Maya Rudolph

#50. She exists, Damon. There are women out there who crave what we can give them. Once you taste it, you can't ever let go of it, #Quote by Maya Banks

#51. Hell, yea, I want something. I want you to stop avoiding me. #Quote by Maya Banks

#52. I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#53. I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#54. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#55. The gift of your trust. Nothing is more valuable than that, and you can't put a price tag on that kind of gift. I'd spend all my time catching up, because hell not it's not equal. What you'd give me far surpasses anything I could give you. #Quote by Maya Banks

#56. She's my second chance, one I tried to throw away so many times it's a wonder she never gave up on me. #Quote by Maya Banks

#57. We move ,we walk, we invent and we innovate. We humans evolved to fly and to do bigger things. If we stop evolving then there is no difference between humans and monoliths.

There were few reasons why we should keep roaming and seeing new places. Why ? #Quote by Maya Jhonson

#58. Sometimes it was better not to ever live the fantasy. Because when reality descended, it outlined in stark detail just how much the real world sucked. #Quote by Maya Banks

#59. You're not going to lose me. Never that. I'm always going to be here. #Quote by Maya Banks

#60. Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter. #Quote by Maya Deren

#61. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats ... #Quote by Maya Angelou

#62. I'll never know why it was important to him that the couple (he said it later that he'd never seen them before) would take a picture of the whole Mr. Johnson back to Little Rock.
He must have been tired of being crippled, as prisoners tire of penitentiary bars and the guilty tire of blame. The high topped shoes and the cane, his uncontrollable muscles and thick tongue, and the looks he suffered of either contempt or pity had simply worn him out, and for one afternoon, one part of an afternoon, he wanted no part of them.
I understood and felt closer to him at that moment than ever before or since. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#63. Like the world had met her low expectations. #Quote by Maya Rodale

#64. Socrates tried to soothe us, true enough. He said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born. This is not absolutely comforting either. Anyway it was natural that theology and philosophy should take the deepest interest in this. They owe it to us not to be boring themselves. On this obligation they don't always make good. However, Kierkegaard was not a bore. I planned to examine his contribution in my master essay. In his view the primacy of the ethical over the esthetic mode was necessary to restore the balance. But enough of that. In myself I could observe the following sources of tedium: 1) The lack of a personal connection with the external world. Earlier I noted that when I was riding through France in a train last spring I looked out of the window and thought that the veil of Maya was wearing thin. And why was this? I wasn't seeing what was there but only what everyone sees under a common directive. By this is implied that our worldview has used up nature. The rule of this view is that I, a subject, see the phenomena, the world of objects. They, however, are not necessarily in themselves objects as modern rationality defines objects. For in spirit, says Steiner, a man can step out of himself and let things speak to him about themselves, to speak about what has meaning not for him alone but also for them. Thus the sun the moon the stars will speak to nonastronomers in spi #Quote by Saul Bellow

#65. She was brilliant and that only brilliant people worried about not being brilliant any longer. #Quote by Maya Banks

#66. I just want to hold you for a while. #Quote by Maya Banks

#67. This is the time to remember that I'm the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit. #Quote by Maya Van Wagenen

#68. Besides, what you need is a swift kick in the ass. If you want a hug, go see Ma. #Quote by Maya Banks

#69. You must be the only woman in the whole entire world who is immune to the Ashbrooke Effect," Olivia said. "Amazing. You are a medical marvel."
"First of all, the Ashbrooke Effect is not an actual medical condition," Emma lectured, after another sip of her drink. "Secondly, I refuse to believe it even exists at all."
"I suffer from it even thinking out him," Olivia said. "My heart is fluttering and my skin feels hot. I must be blushing all over."
"That's probably all the sherry you've been drinking," Emma remarked. #Quote by Maya Rodale

#70. The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#71. In his apartment, he finds Maya by herself. Her eyes look moist. "I threw up, Daddy."

"I'm sorry." A.J. locates the lighter in his drawer. He slams the drawer shut. "Where's Amelia?"

"Are you going to propose?" Maya asks.

"No, darling. Not at this particular moment. I've got to deliver a lighter to an alcoholic."

She considers this information. "Can I come with you?" she asks. #Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

#72. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. #Quote by Maya Lin

#73. Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#74. God, but she loved it. His tongue #Quote by Maya Banks

#75. She may not be a mighty warrior, but one thing she'd learned after observing her mother, was that if anything could fell a warrior, it was a determined woman #Quote by Maya Banks

#76. I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too. #Quote by Maya Forbes

#77. she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate, and she must tell her children the truth about the power of white power without suggesting that it cannot be challenged. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#78. I love you, Bowen Montgomery. I love you so very much, and that will never change, even when we're old and gray. I thank God for you every single day, and that you came and lifted me from the depths of despair. You showed me how it can be with a man who loves me, and you've shined light on the darkest shadows of my memories. #Quote by Maya Banks

#79. The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#80. Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#81. The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#82. Graeme leaned down and pressed his lips to Eveline's cool forehead. "Come back to me," he whispered. "I'm waiting, Eveline. #Quote by Maya Banks

#83. How do you know what I want? You've never asked. #Quote by Maya Banks

#84. Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#85. This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#86. When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike ... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#87. Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#88. Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#89. People will forget what you say, they will forget what you do, but they never will forget how you make them feel." - Dr. Maya Angelou #Quote by Don R Crawley

#90. I had a lot of clouds, but I have had so many rainbows. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#91. I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#92. Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion]. #Quote by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#93. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#94. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#95. The purring kitten on her shoulder and the beauty of the day rinsed away her gloom on the walk home. #Quote by Tara Maya

#96. This is so cool," I said loudly as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?" "He's a she," Mom said. "Is she hot? Cause I'm still young, you know. My sexual identity isnt fully formed." "Your father can't hear you anymore, Maya." Mom sighed. #Quote by Kelley Armstrong

#97. You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy #Quote by Maya Banks

#98. Don't ask questions you don't want the answer, Micah. #Quote by Maya Banks

#99. Was he demanding? Hell yes, but he wasn't selfish. He took. He was ruthless in his demands. But he gave her back so much. Not just materially but emotionally, though he'd likely deny he did any such thing. #Quote by Maya Banks

#100. I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity. #Quote by Maya Goded

#101. The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292. #Quote by David Roberts

#102. You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#103. I'm just saying it's not time for that either. We need to focus and having Maya moon over Rafe is making everyone uncomfortable."
Rafe grinned. "Doesn't bother me. #Quote by Kelley Armstrong

#104. Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people to other Blacks was most probably needed as desperately by the donor as by the receiver. A fact which made the giving or receiving a rich exchange. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#105. He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from seven years old to death. The humorless puzzle of inequality and hate. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#106. Laugh ... It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#107. Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900. #Quote by David Roberts

#108. First rule of seduction. At least one of us has to get naked. Preferably you," he murmured.
Nervous apprehension replaced some of the excitement. It was silly. He'd seen her naked. Many times. They'd made love before. But for her it was like the first time all over again.
"Hey," he said softly. He drew away and tucked a finger under her chin, prompting her to look up at him. "We'll take this as slow as you need. If I could make love to you with you fully clothed, I'd do it, but I think we both know that's not an option."
She giggled and felt some of her unease leave her.
"Let's not take it too slow or we'll both be old and decrepit before we ever make love."
"Mmm, I plan to make love to you until they put me in the grave. That's what they make Viagra for."
She leaned into him and hugged him fiercely as another laugh escaped.
"Make you a deal. We undress together. Last one naked is a rotten egg."
She yanked away as she said the last and immediately began peeling her clothes off.
"Oh hell no," he sputtered. "Maybe you don't remember what a competitive family you married into."
"While you're talking, I'm getting naked," she taunted.
A wicked glint sparked in his eyes. "I fail to see how I lose either way. #Quote by Maya Banks

#109. I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#110. Wait just a goddamn minute, Josie. We're not finished. No way in fuck I'm giving up that easy. You're worth fighting for. #Quote by Maya Banks

#111. But why?" Vimbai whispered, overwhelmed with the weight of accumulated disbelief. "What is happening to us?"
"Who knows?" Maya shrugged. "Who cares? Enjoy it while you can, why don't you? There will be tons of boring shit in your life, okay? I promise. #Quote by Ekaterina Sedia

#112. When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.' #Quote by Maya Angelou

#113. There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends #Quote by Maya Angelou

#114. Don't let me go Jace. I'm lost without you. #Quote by Maya Banks

#115. But love isn't about causing pain for the person you care about, #Quote by Maya Banks

#116. Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#117. First we became friendly, then we became sister friends. When she finally told me I was her daughter, I knew I had found home. Sitting #Quote by Maya Angelou

#118. I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. #Quote by Maya Lin

#119. Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#120. All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#121. I said, "What do I think? That's what I'm asking you? What is there to think?" "Looks like he wants you to be his valentine." "Louise, I can read. But what does it mean?" "Oh, you know. His valentine. His love." There was that hateful word again. That treacherous word that yawned up at you like a volcano. "Well, I won't. Most decidedly I won't. Not ever again." "Have you been his valentine before? What do you mean never again?" I couldn't lie to my friend and I wasn't about to freshen old ghosts. "Well, don't answer him then, and that's the end of it." I was a little relieved that she thought it could be gotten rid of so quickly. I tore the note in half and gave her a part. Walking down the hill we minced the paper in a thousand shreds and gave it to the wind. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#122. I have found that the platonic affection
in friendships and familial
love for children can be relied upon
with certainty to lift the bruised soul
and repair the wounded spirit #Quote by Maya Angelou

#123. Woman's fear of the female Self, of the experience of the numinous archetypal Feminine, becomes comprehensible when we get a glimpse - or even only a hint – of the profound otherness of female selfhood as contrasted to male selfhood. Precisely that element which, in his fear of the Feminine, the male experiences as the hole, abyss, void, and nothingness turns into something positive for the woman without, however, losing these same characteristics. Here the archetypal Feminine is experienced not as illusion and as maya but rather as unfathomable reality and as life in which above and below, spiritual and physical, are not pitted against each other; reality as eternity is creative and, at the same time, is grounded in primeval nothingness. Hence as daughter the woman experiences herself as belonging to the female spiritual figure Sophia, the highest wisdom, while at the same time she is actualizing her connection with the musty, sultry, bloody depths of swamp-mother Earth. However, in this sort of Self-discovery woman necessarily comes to see herself as different from what presents itself to men -as, for example, spirit and father, but often also as the patriarchal godhead and his ethics. The basic phenomenon - that the human being is born of woman and reared by her during the crucial developmental phases - is expressed in woman as a sense of connectedness with all living things, a sense not yet sufficiently realized, and one that men, and especially the patriarchal male, abso #Quote by Erich Neumann

#124. I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life. #Quote by Maya Lin

#125. The cause of all suffering is when we forget our identity with god. That is called Maya, or illusion. God is everywhere. You need not search to find him. If you call him with sincerity, he will reveal himself to you. God sees within the heart not the externals. There must be no duplicity. You may wander through the jungles your whole life, but god is within your heart. When you meet him there, you will see that he is everywhere. #Quote by Radhanath Swami

#126. The basic recurring theme in Hindu mythology is the creation of the world by the self-sacrifice of God - "sacrifice" in the original sense of "making sacred" - whereby God becomes the world which, in the end, becomes again God. This creative activity of the Divine is called lila, the play of God, and the world is seen as the stage of the divine play. Like most of Hindu mythology, the myth of lila has a strong magical flavour. Brahman is the great magician who transforms himself into the world and then performs this feat with his "magic creative power", which is the original meaning of maya in the Rig Veda. The word maya - one of the most important terms in Indian philosophy - has changed its meaning over the centuries. From the might, or power, of the divine actor and magician, it came to signify the psychological state of anybody under the spell of the magic play. As long as we confuse the myriad forms of the divine lila with reality, without perceiving the unity of Brahman underlying all these forms, we are under the spell of maya. (...) In the Hindu view of nature, then, all forms are relative, fluid and ever-changing maya, conjured up by the great magician of the divine play. The world of maya changes continuously, because the divine lila is a rhythmic, dynamic play. The dynamic force of the play is karma, important concept of Indian thought. Karma means "action". It is the active principle of the play, the total universe in action, where everything is dynamically connect #Quote by Fritjof Capra

#127. But women bear the brunt of this bias. According to patient surveys,
women are more likely than men to have been advised to lose weight by a
health care provider. #Quote by Maya Dusenbery

#128. This book has been written to examine some of the ways love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#129. Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path.
Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides.
Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it #Quote by Maya Angelou

#130. If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war? #Quote by Maya Angelou

#131. Sometimes, a gal just can't have too many men.
Maya #Quote by Cynthia Eden

#132. Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything – everything. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#133. The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#134. It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. #Quote by Maya Lin

#135. I sustain myself with the love of family. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#136. And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you. #Quote by Maya Banks

#137. My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#138. Maya has chosen to be ring bearer because the job has more responsibility than flower girl. "If you lose a flower, you get another flower," Maya reasons. "If you lose the ring, everyone is sad forever. The ring bearer has much more power."
"You sound like Gollum," A.J. says.
"Who's Gollum?" Maya wants to know.
"Someone very nerdy that your father likes," Amelia says. #Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

#139. When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#140. I love how you look at me. #Quote by Maya Banks

#141. She won't be alone. I'm not leaving her. #Quote by Maya Banks

#142. Canada?" Ash said. "You didn't say it was in Canada.
"I said Ontario." (Maya)
"I thought you meant Ontario, California."
"Seriously?" Tori said,rolling her eyes. "A helicopter to California? You may be hot,but your sister clearly inherited all the brains in the family."
"Did she call me hot?" Ash whispered to me, looking more annoyed than he ever did when someone called him a jerk.
"She hasn't been on a date in six months", Derek rumbled behind us. "No offense, but as long as aren't related to her, you're fair game. Hell, even
"
Tori spun on him. "I didn't know."
"Um, wait a sec," Corey said. "So Ash is hot and I'm seriously cute? Is there a difference?"
"Yes," Hayley said, and propelled him through the line. #Quote by Kelley Armstrong

#143. You're not serious; you're boring as hell. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#144. Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#145. Live life as if it were created just for you. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#146. The role of art in society differs for every artist. #Quote by Maya Lin

#147. People can change ... no matter where they come from, no matter where they think they ought to go, people can make their own way. #Quote by Rochelle Maya Callen

#148. All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know. #Quote by George Vecsey

#149. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#150. The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#151. The door cracked open. "Decent?" Rafe asked.
"Yep"
"Damn." He pushed it open.
"If you're hoping to see something, the trick is to not knock first."
"That would be wrong," he said as he walked in. "The trick is to hope you say 'no, but come in anyway.'"
"Ah. #Quote by Kelley Armstrong

#152. If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#153. Have enough courage to love. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#154. No one can take the place of a friend, no one. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#155. I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time
that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#156. Determine to live life with flair and laughter. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#157. there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no right, and that maybe at the same time there is no wrong. But in this case I was wrong and I appreciate Vivian Baxter for being big enough to accept my apology. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#158. Did you have a ship?" Maya asks. "Yes. It had books on it, and it really was more of a research vessel. We studied a lot." "You're ruining this story." "It's a fact, Maya. There are murdering kinds of pirates and researching kinds of pirates, and your daddy was the latter. #Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

#159. Shakespeare must be a black girl. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#160. Inscribed on the temple of Apollo #Quote by Maya Angelou

#161. The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#162. Not knowing one's real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs. #Quote by Dada Bhagwan

#163. This is better than a romance novel." P.J. said with a wistful sigh.
"You read that stuff?" Cole demanded.
"Why the hell do you ask the question like that?" P.J. said, annoyance evident in her tone and expression.
"You just didn't seem the type," Cole mumbled.
She flipped him the bird, and Shea had to bite her lip to keep from laughing. P.J. was easily half Cole's size but she also looked like she had the confidence to take on the much larger man. She might even kick his ass. The idea intrigued Shea greatly.
"I'm tempted to shove one of my romance novels up your ass." P.J. said sharply. "But I love my books too much to desecrate them like that, I'll settle for my boot."
Cole held up his hands in surrender. "I won't say another word. Romance novels are great. I love romance novels. I think everyone should read them. #Quote by Maya Banks

#164. Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.' #Quote by Maya Angelou

#165. Exchange love for hate ... Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#166. Passion ought to be tempered with restraint. #Quote by Maya Rodale

#167. Alien to him, gripped him by the balls, freezing his insides. He rubbed at his chest in an effort to alleviate the discomfort and closed his eyes, trying to rid himself of the images the threat had invoked. #Quote by Maya Banks

#168. I'll take that as my cue to mind my own business #Quote by Maya Banks

#169. Finally we touch that Great Fact, which Goethe incorporated into his final words: the 'ever-womanly.' It is a sin against Goethe to say that here he means the female sex. He refers to that profundity signifying the human soul as related to the mystery of the world; that which deeply yearns as the eternal in man, the ever-womanly which draws the soul to the eternally immortal, the eternal wisdom, and which gives itself to the 'eternal masculine.' The ever-womanly draws us towards the ever-masculine. It has nothing to do with something feminine in the ordinary sense. Therefore can we truly seek this ever-womanly in man and woman: the ever-womanly which aspires to the union with the ever-manly in the cosmos, to become one with the Divine-Spiritual that inter-penetrates and permeates the world towards which Faust strives. This mystery of man of all ages pursued by Faust from the beginning, this secret to which Spiritual Science is to lead us in a modern sense, is expressed by Goethe paradigmatically and monumentally in those five words at the conclusion of the second part of Faust represented as a mystic Spirit Choir; that everything physical surrounding us in the sense world is Maya, illusion; a symbol only of the spiritual. But this spiritual we can perceive if we penetrate that which covers it like a veil. And in it we see attained what on earth was impossible of attainment. We see that, which for ordinary intellect is indescribable, transformed into action as soon as the huma #Quote by Rudolf Steiner

#170. Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#171. Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole. #Quote by Maya Lin

#172. Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#173. When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. #Quote by Maya Lin

#174. Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#175. "Are you sure about that?" Corey muttered once the were gone. "Chloe is nice enough, but that Derek? Real charmer. If anyone busts through that door, he's liable to throw us to them as cannon fodder."
I wasn't sure I disagreed. #Quote by Kelley Armstrong

#176. If we are not married by within three months time, we shall be the first batch of spinsters in the history of the school," Olivia said in a small voice. "No one has ever ended their fourth season unwed. Except for us."
( ... )"In the one-hundred-year history of the school, it was bound to happen," Prudence said. "Mathematically speaking. #Quote by Maya Rodale

#177. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#178. I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it. #Quote by Maya Lin

#179. We are only as blind as we want to be. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#180. Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid's cheeks turn pink. He'd forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women could be. #Quote by Maya Rodale

#181. My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim. #Quote by Maya Soetoro-Ng

#182. I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#183. All of the blissful and beautiful aspects of the Absolute are present in each and every person and living thing, but they remain dormant because they are hidden behind the mask of maya. In other words, we are all blinded to this inner bliss and beauty by our limited sense of who we are, and by the habit of directing so much of our attention out into the world. Everyone can have momentary glimpses of inner bliss when they experience something that is extremely pleasing to the senses and the mind. But usually these situations are fleeting and simply leave a person unfulfilled and longing for more. They then pursue the outer object in an attempt to rediscover the blissful state, not realizing that the source of bliss is within and need not be attached to an outer stimulus at all. This inner beauty can be discovered and contacted at will through simply turning our attention within, and through the various practices outlined in this yoga.

- B. N. Pandit, Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism (3rd ed., 2008), p. 123. #Quote by Balajinnatha Pandita

#184. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#185. I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#186. If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#187. Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#188. Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace? #Quote by Maya Angelou

#189. Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.' #Quote by Maya Angelou

#190. I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#191. Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#192. You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime? #Quote by Tabitha Suzuma

#193. I'll go," Thad said.
Zane looked at him in surprise. "I appreciate the offer, but this isn't part of your vacation. This is hard, dangerous work. Cold and wet, too."
Thad shrugged. "I want to help. I can ride and point the steers in the right direction. Will that be enough?"
"I'll go, too," Martin said.
"Me, too."
The last voice came from behind him. Zane turned to see Phoebe leaning against the wall.
Maya groaned. "Dammit, Phoebe, if you go, I'll have to, as well. Do you know what this weather is going to do to my hair?"
Phoebe smiled. "Wear a hat."
"Oh, yeah, that'll help in this rain."
"You don't have to do this," Zane said. "Not any of you."
"We know that," Thad said. "We're all in this together. Now I say we head out and save us some cattle."
Chase nodded. "They're greenhorns, Zane, but there's plenty of them. Without them, we can't get the herd to safety."
Zane knew his brother was right. He didn't have a choice. Not if he wanted to save the steers.
"Get the horses saddled up," he told Chase. "We'll be out in five minutes." He turned back to everyone else. "Dress warmly. Make the top layer as waterproof as you can." He nodded at Eddie and Gladys. "We'll need some food."
Eddie nodded, then grabbed Andrea and C.J. and pulled them toward the stairs.
Zane turned to Phoebe, who smiled at him. "They're going to help," she said.
He frowned. "I know."
"They like you. We all like you."
"Oh. #Quote by Susan Mallery

#194. Something has to die for forgiveness to take place. (Maya Angelou or Brene Brown) #Quote by Kit Crumpton

#195. When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#196. When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#197. It was the only way to silence you."
She bristled with outrage. "Silence
me? You took liberties with
my ... my ... my lips in order to silence
me? That was very impertinent of you,
Laird. I won't allow you to do it again."
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He smiled and folded his arms over
his chest. "Aye, you will."
Her mouth gaped open in astonishment
and then worked up and down as
she struggled to speak. "I assure you I
won't."
"I assure you that you will. #Quote by Maya Banks

#198. I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency. #Quote by Maya Banks

#199. I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#200. Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, because you can feel the stories living inside you, nudging you, prodding you, itching to get out and the only thing worse than writing it and failing is not writing it. As the late Maya Angelou once said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

Even if your work doesn't resonate with others, it is still worth writing. And that in itself, is what's important. #Quote by Nancy Arroyo Ruffin