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“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
― Bill Cosby

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]

“If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.”
― Steve Harvey

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.”
― John D. MacDonald

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.”
― Tyler Perry