You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling LifeFrom 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. Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the world’s best loved and most admired public figures, offers a wise and intimate guide on how to overcome fears, embrace challenges as opportunities, and cultivate civic pride: You Learn by Living. A crucial precursor to better-living guides like Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening or Robert Persig’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 of personal exploration resonates with the timeless power to change lives. |
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No one is adequate to give such blanket answers. No one finds ultimate solutions
. But the questions are questions we all meet in our lives; they are questions we
must all answer in some way. Not with finality, for life is too fluid, too alive for that.
I always feel perfectly inadequate to answer this because I never planned a
career and never prepared for it. To this day I do not feel I have had a career.
What I have done is to live every experience to the utmost. As I look back, I think
probably ...
I answer them as best I can, inadequately, I am afraid, because it is difficult to
give anyone a list of books which, in themselves, will provide him or her with
culture. I tell them that they should read at least a few of the classics, translations
of the ...
When they stop using it, the reason, too often, is that no one bothered to answer
them, no one tried to keep alive one of the most important attributes a person can
have: interest in the world around him. No one fostered and cultivated the child's
...
So many older people, particularly in dealing with the young, feel that they know
all the answers. They don't discuss things with you. They tell you. But my aunt
kept, until her death, the elasticity of her mind, though she had so long lost the ...
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At the end of You Learn by Living, Eleanor Roosevelt writes that she feels that her book advice for personal growth and fulfillment boils down to a handful of principles. It is always helpful to successfully complete smaller steps that carry you gradually towards a larger goal. There are more clearly defined objectives, it will be defined between steps achieved and made visible. that motivates incredible.
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| Title | You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life |
| Author | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 2011 |
| ISBN | 006207850X, 9780062078506 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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