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Eleanor Roosevelt
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„Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.“
„Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself“
„A consciousness of the fact that war means practically total destruction is the reason, I think, for the rising tide to prevent what seems such a senseless procedure. I understand that it is perhaps difficult for some people, whose lives have been lived with a sense of the need for military development, to envisage the possibility of being no longer needed. But the average citizen is beginning to think more and more of the need to develop machinery to settle difficulties in the world without destruction or the use of atomic bombs.“
„Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.“
„One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.“
„Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that’s why they call it the present.“
„A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.“
„I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.“
„Example is the best lesson there is.“
„I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.“
„To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.“
„My husband plunged into work on a speech and I went off to work on an article. Midnight came and bed for all, and all that was said was “good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.’“
„Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.“
„The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. “
„Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”“
„Happinessis not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.“
„I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.“
„Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge“
„To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.“
„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.“
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