"Comparison is the thief of all joy."
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"The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may 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 ever were before. . . . 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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"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you."
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"Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!"
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"What you don't do can be a destructive force."
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"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 face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future."
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"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
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"Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger."
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"All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you."
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"This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used."
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"I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world."
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"Understanding is a two-way street."
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"If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence."
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"Courage is exhilarating."
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"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."
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"No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
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"When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor."
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"You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt"
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"Work is always an antidote to depression."
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