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 RooseveltTags: eleanor-roosevelt
Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. 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.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: eleanor-roosevelt life-wisdom
Cease to be a drudge. Seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod BethuneTags: eleanor-roosevelt national-council-of-negro-women
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
Eleanor RooseveltTags: eleanor-roosevelt
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
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If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: eleanor-roosevelt to-understand-its-meaning
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person
Eleanor RooseveltTags: eleanor-roosevelt in-the-long-run what-counts
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.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: values maturity eleanor-roosevelt
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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