Nothing will work unless you do.

—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, 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 over...

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

—Maya Angelou

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

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

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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, then you're seeking the wrong kind of people, for it has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with what you do. Is that the kind of people you want? The ones who are more attracted to your status than you?

—Donna Lynn Hope

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

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You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong.

—Alain de Botton

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Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you're meeting and every experience that you're having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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This work is about transformation — from the person we are to the person we really are. In the end, we can't be anyone else.

—Marion Rosen

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