If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

—Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou ( AN-jə-loh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning...

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

—Maya Angelou

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

—Maya Angelou

I know why the caged bird sings.

—Maya Angelou

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

—Maya Angelou

Nothing will work unless you do.

—Maya Angelou

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Care and diligence bring luck.

—Thomas Fuller

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The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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