Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be read

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Other quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. – R.D. Laing

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Life is lived on the edge. – Will Smith

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