"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."

Patience

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The theme of patience is universal, yet Alice Walker manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on patience often shapes our reality.

About Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.

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"It is a essential truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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