American - First | October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Understanding is a two-way street.
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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.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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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.
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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 should be curiosity.
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
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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.
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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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