I 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.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTThe most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.
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One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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The person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.
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Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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If you fail the first time then you’ll just have to try harder the second time.
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A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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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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