"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

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Source : FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 15, 2013

Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Change Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.”
“We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons or we will stay with the pigs. He won't let us earn anything from him because there will be no boasting in his sight. It will either be that Jesus and his glorious gospel has the preeminence or we will go it on our own.”
“Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels”
“Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.”
“When I first signed up for a Twitter account - I was to say it was in 2007, people are going to think it's some weird self promotional thing or it's going, but in time I was called upon to like try to persuade other foreign correspondents and journalists to get on Twitter and see the usefulness of it which is kind of ironic. I think the journalists who are leading the digital charge at the Times have, all have that background as a foreign correspondent, which I think is not accidental.”
“I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.”
“I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.”
“The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.”

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