If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouRead
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
Interpretation
Everyone is born with inherent worth and potential derived from a higher power.
This quote by Maya Angelou emphasizes that each individual is born with a unique spark of greatness, suggesting that our existence is not random but instead a continuation of a creative force. It encourages us to recognize our intrinsic value and the brilliance we carry within us, connecting us to something greater than ourselves and urging us to embrace our own glory as we navigate through life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-worth, this quote can be a powerful reminder that everyone has greatness within.
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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.
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.
I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.
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