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" I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father. "

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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' "

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" 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. "

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" With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. "

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" You must do the things you think you cannot do. "

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" 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. "

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" Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. "

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" What you don't do can be a destructive force. "

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" I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! "

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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. "

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" There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. "

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