Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

—Tayari Jones in An American Marriage

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About Tayari Jones

Portrait of Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones (born November 30, 1970) is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is...

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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

—Maxwell Maltz

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It was wrong. But it was worth it.

—Ann Brashares in My Name Is Memory

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There's a great satisfaction in knowing that we've made good use of our days, that we've lived up to our expectations of ourselves.

—Gretchen Rubin in Better Than Before

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