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It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.


Eleanor Perényi

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ELEANOR MONDALE As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Can...
ELEANOR CATTON A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've create...
ELEANOR CATTON Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My hor...
ELEANOR CATTON Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign...
ELEANOR ACER