In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTI think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.
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I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.
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Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.
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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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