I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYI tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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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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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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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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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My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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