You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling LifeHarper Collins, 26. 4. 2011. - 224 страница 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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... aware of what I was doing, to experience all I could as deeply as I could. I must have been no more than five when I went on a trip to Italy with my father and mother. In Venice, my father invited me to ride in a gondola and he paid the ...
... aware that there were great gaps in my knowledge. I married very young and came into a different atmosphere, and began to meet a great variety of people. Knowing my own deficiencies, I made a game of trying to make people talk about ...
... aware of an ever-recurring sense of loss that she can no longer tell them. What made my aunt the rare and useful person she was can be explained only, I think, by the fact that she never lost her curiosity, her interest was never dimmed ...
... aware of a real gap in my education. I made up my mind to find out as soon as possible how my own government functioned so I would not be embarrassed in this way again. Franklin knew my problem quite well and his eyes twinkled as he ...