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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

Rose Kennedy

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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Challenge Children Greatness Hope Mom
I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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Myself Old Wine Worth
I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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Goodness Myself Thinking Yourself
I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
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Husband Life Myself Quite Success Travel
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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Business Himself Job Myself Simplicity
In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
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Destiny Happiness Life Myself Reading Rule
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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Learning Mental Place
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
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Book Greatness Mom Myself Reputation
Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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Fortune Greatness Inspirational Prosperity
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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Marriage Thinking Understand Woman
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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Business Change Husband Job Myself Simplicity
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
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Forgiveness Himself Myself
Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.
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Ability Money Opportunity Talent
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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Lose Philosophy Possible Yourself
It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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Determination Pain Tears
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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Feeling Freedom People Sing Storm Sun
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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Children Parents Wrong
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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Magic Mindset Myself Oneself World
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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Argument Morning Night Yourself
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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Break Children Myself Risk Spirit
Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
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Greatness Life Live Money People Simplicity
I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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Believe Carry God Himself Myself Sadness Storm
Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
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Joy Life Myself Philosophy Priviledge
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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Lose Possible Yourself
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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Break Children Myself Risk Spirit

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

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