“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You always admire what you really don't understand.
- Eleanor Roosevelt”
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“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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 Roosevelt
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“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You always admire what you really don't understand.
- Eleanor Roosevelt”
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