If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouRead
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Interpretation
Everyone needs a break from daily challenges to recharge and reflect.
Maya Angelou's quote emphasizes the importance of taking time off from our daily struggles and responsibilities. It suggests that a respite from confronting problems allows individuals to rejuvenate their minds and spirits, fostering a healthier and more balanced approach to life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of mental health.
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.
The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.
The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.
In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.
Iβm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts
How good is life, the mere living!
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
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