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.”
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“Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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