If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouRead
The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
Interpretation
Loving others is a fundamental responsibility of being human.
Maya Angelou emphasizes that one of the most important and honorable roles we have as human beings is to express love towards others. This love transcends mere affection; it is a lifelong commitment to understanding, caring for, and supporting each other in our shared human experience.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Maya Angelou said, the honorary duty of a human being is to love, reminding us to support one another.'
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.
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.
My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others.
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son. ~pgs 209-210; Buckley, Lindsey and Jack on Susie
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