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 ROOSEVELTLearn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
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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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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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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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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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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Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
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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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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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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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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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