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“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be confident, not certain”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.”
― Stephen King

“God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“Time heals all wounds.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

“The color white is the absence of memory.”
― Stephen King

“Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions--but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.”
― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”
― Stephen King, It

“You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Art should be a place of hope.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.”
― Stephen King