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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Perhaps they may steer someone away from the pitfalls into which I stumbled or
help them to avoid the mistakes I have made. Or perhaps one can learn only by
one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living. But they
...
The French mistress had us listen to her read a French poem, of perhaps eight
lines, and repeat it after the first reading. At first I could not do it, but gradually I
was able to manage fairly well. She taught us history and, though we were only ...
Nor could she have been, as she was, in spite of crippling handicaps, a happy
woman. Her younger sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, was a poet. Perhaps she
has no claim to live among the immortals but she wrote some things that I still like
to ...
... yet life came to her, sought her out. Best of all, it needed her. Never, perhaps,
have any of us needed as much as we do today to use all the curiosity we have,
needed to seek new knowledge, needed to realize that no knowledge is terminal.
... 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 family without
conversation. Naturally, there are always trivial things, plans and details to be
talked over.
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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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