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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.

Rose Kennedy

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
ROSE KENNEDY

Best Challenge Children Love Myself World
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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Beauty Children Friendship Gift God Inspirational Intelligence Life Myself Philosophy Respect Spirit
I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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Goodness Myself Thinking Yourself
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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Inspirational Sing Storm
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
It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
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Healing Mindset Pain Sanity Science Time Wound
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
It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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Determination Pain Tears
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Book Greatness Mom Myself Reputation
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Joy Life Myself Philosophy Priviledge
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Destiny Happiness Life Myself Reading Rule
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Forgiveness Himself Myself
As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.
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Born Career Greatness Ideal Mom Reward Woman
I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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Attraction Myself Photograph
I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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Excitement Love Marriage Money Myself Time
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

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