A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTPeople grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you.
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The person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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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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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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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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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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Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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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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One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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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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Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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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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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.
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