"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

Ackerman, Diane on country
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"There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses."

Ackerman, Diane on senses   

"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

Ackerman, Diane on poetry and poets
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"Only your mind can produce fear."

A Course In Miracles on fear
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"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

A Course In Miracles on peace
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on effort
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"All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on failure
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on leadership
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on inferiority
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"You must do the thing that you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on impossibility
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"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on immortality   

"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on happiness
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on america   

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on friends and friendship
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"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."

A Course In Miracles on perception
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