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Joy
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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 should be curiosity.
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
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.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Understanding is a two-way street.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
What is to give light must endure the burning.
What one has to do usually can be done.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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