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 ROOSEVELTLife was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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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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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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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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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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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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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.
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