Remembering Her Quotes:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.7, Hachette UK

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Self Determination, Just Being You

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

- Maya Angelou

source: Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Life Philosophy, Celebrate Life

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Love, Inspirational, Inspiring, Love And Courage, Have A Laugh

I know why the caged bird sings.

- Maya Angelou

source: Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

topic: Inspirational, Children, Book, Carols, Best Poem

I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

- Joan Rivers

source: "Cutup". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 31, 2008.

topic: Memorable, Laughing, Comedian, Tupperware, Laugh Out Loud

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspiring Love

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful, Novel Writing, Courage To Change

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Success, Inspiration, Memorable, Hillarious, Remembering Her

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

- Maya Angelou

source: Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017

topic: Inspiring, Success, Encouragement, Remembering Her, Normality

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage, Makes You Stronger, Never Surrender

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Mean, Enjoy Life, Alive, Remembering Her

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Summer, Dream, Children, Grown Women, Remembering Her

I’m really not hungry,” she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. “Just a few bites,” he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. “You need to keep up your strength for tonight.” She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. “Why? Are you planning something special?” “I suppose I am,” he said consideringly. “It’s special every time we make love.

- Linda Howard

source: Linda Howard (2016). “Loving Evangeline”, p.133, HQN Books

topic: Coffee, Making Love, Special, Remembering Her, Sipping

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

- George Santayana

topic: Beauty, Past, Comfort, Habitual, Remembering Her

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Life, Happiness, Inspiring, Courage To Change, Inspiration To Others

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

- Joan Rivers

source: "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"by R. Byrne, (p. 94), 2003.

topic: Funny, Witty, Baby, Hillarious, Unwanted

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

- Joan Rivers

source: "Remembering Joan Rivers" by Erica Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2014.

topic: Happiness, Money, Memorable, Hillarious, Secret To Happiness

Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She'd never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart. Annabeth about Percy

- Rick Riordan

topic: Heart, Sea, Broken, Remembering Her

I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.

- Paul Lisicky

topic: Voice, Feelings, Months, Remembering Her