You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling LifeHarper Collins, 2011 M04 26 - 228 páginas From one of the world’s most celebrated and admired public figures, a wise and intimate book on how to get the most of out life. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each new thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. One of the most beloved figures of the twentieth century, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt remains a role model for a life well lived. At the age of seventy-six, Roosevelt penned this simple guide to living a fuller life—a powerful volume of enduring commonsense ideas and heartfelt values. Offering her own philosophy on living, she takes readers on a path to compassion, confidence, maturity, civic stewardship, and more. Her keys to a fulfilling life? Learning to Learn • Fear—the Great Enemy • The Uses of Time • The Difficult Art of Maturity • Readjustment is Endless • Learning to Be Useful• The Right to Be an Individual • How to Get the Best Out of People •Facing Responsibility • How Everyone Can Take Part in Politics • Learning to Be a Public Servant A crucial precursor to better-living guides like Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening or Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, as well as political memoirs such as John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, the First Lady’s illuminating manual is a window into Eleanor Roosevelt herself and a trove of timeless wisdom that resonates in any era. |
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... interests enclosed within the narrow circle of herself . But she didn't . There was not a young member of the family who would not have traveled any distance to be with her . Into that box on the table were shouted their confidences ...
... interest was never dimmed, she still reached out for new experience and welcomed it. Without those qualities she could never have managed to continue to grow and to increase in depth of understanding. Nor could she have been, as she was ...
... interests . They come to you . They will gravitate as automatically as the needle to the north . Somehow , it is ... interest in politics . My usual answer is that it is because of my uncle , Theodore Roosevelt , and my husband . But ...
... interest . You must be interested in anything that comes your way . Right here , some of you will shrug and say , " It's different for you . You've had an interesting life . But in my town - or my family -or my limited circumstances ...
... interests, where someone loves music, or does amateur painting, or is engrossed in literature, reading aloud perhaps, or just exchanging comments about what is being read. I think it is a tremendous loss to a child to grow up in a ...
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