![]() "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”ģ. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."Ģ. "You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Here are fifteen of her most memorable quotes that might, perhaps, serve as inspiration to you and yours in both your personal and professional life:ġ. While it might seem shallow to remember anyone by listing her quotes, it’s important not to forget the wisdom and inspiration those who have passed on shared when alive, including the wise words of a prolific writer and activist of Dr. On the day it was announced that the legendary poet had passed on, then US president Barack Obama, who had bestowed Angelou the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, said in a statement: “Today, Michelle and I join millions around the world in remembering one of the brightest lights of our time - a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.” He added, “She inspired my own mother to name my sister Maya.” Many will remember Angelou, who rose to international acclaim from a poor childhood background in rural (and, at the time, racially hostile) Arkansas, as not just a talented writer and poet with an extensive and impressive literary body of work, but also-as she would put it-a "phenomenal woman" and champion of human dignity and freedom. Brann said Angelou had been frail for some time and had heart problems. Her death, the cause of which was not immediately known, was confirmed by her longtime literary agent Helen Brann. Find someone in your life who you know to be struggling and, without expecting anything in return, be a rainbow in their cloud.Maya Angelou, renowned poet and memoirist, whose landmark 1969 bestseller “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” broke ground as one of the first autobiographies by a 20th Century black woman to reach a global audience, died Wednesday 28 th May, 2014 at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US. She was 86. Remember that you were put here to be your best self for a purpose bigger than yourself. Sometimes all we humans require is an attentive listener, a positive quote to read, or a cup of coffee made by another hand. Just because you are not expending all of your energy to get rid of the cloud or stop the rain or drag the sun out, that does not mean you are not doing enough for the person involved. Regarding the Bible quotation, “My cup runneth over,” Iyanla Vanzant said that in order to keep your cup full when giving to others, you have to make it clear that “What comes out of the cup is for y’all what’s in the cup is mine.” It’s the idea that when your cup is so full it’s overflowing, you can give the excess to others guilt-free because you already have enough. Rainbows don’t replace clouds they simply shine through a fraction of them to say “I’m here.” If you are being a rainbow, however, you aren’t doing so at the expense of yourself. People-pleasers expend themselves by giving away food even when they are still hungry themselves. But the difference between the two is that the latter demands too much of you, while the former demands just enough. ![]() Fill your own cup, that it may overflowĪnd it’s easy to confuse being a rainbow in someone else’s cloud with being a people-pleaser. Sometimes we need a rainbow in a cloud of our own. Have you ever been financially broke - and yet, almost by magic, somebody was there to lend you money? Or instead experienced the death of a loved one - while one person stayed with you patiently through your grief? These people were your rainbows.Īnd if you haven’t had an experience like this, then that is all the more reason to give someone what you wish someone would have given you in a time of crisis. To extend nourishment as much as we hoard it. That we were put here to also be of service to others. We realize that we were put here for a greater purpose than to just serve ourselves. How do we be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud? We offer ourselves to them. But be a blessing to somebody that’s what I think. Somebody who may not look like you, may not call God the same name you call God-if they call God at all-you see? And may not eat the same dishes prepared the way you do, may not dance your dances, or speak your language. Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.
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