“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”
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“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt |
“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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