A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTLove can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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Understanding is a two-way street.
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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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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
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Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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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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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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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.
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Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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We do not have to become heroes overnight.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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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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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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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.
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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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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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Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
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Only I can let you disrepect me!
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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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