"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”
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