The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

Love

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

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"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

Courage

"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

Compassion

"The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness."

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

Knowledge

"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

- Wade Boggs

Knowledge

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

Knowledge

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

Knowledge

"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

Knowledge