If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouRead
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of human connection and the positive impact of small gestures of affection.
Maya Angelou's quote highlights the significance of daily interactions and the simple yet profound ways we can express care and support to others. A warm hug or a friendly pat on the back can foster relationships, uplift spirits, and make people feel valued, showcasing the power of human touch and kindness in our lives.
In practice
In a speech about community engagement, one might say, 'As Maya Angelou reminds us, reaching out and touching someone is essential for building strong relationships.'
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.
Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.
In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine
It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.
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