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. 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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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.
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, ...
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 ...
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. For almost everything.
... or does amateur painting, or is engrossed in literature, 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.
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Procura do Utilizador - bookworm12 - LibraryThingA nonfiction piece by the former First Lady. I love the point she makes about learning through every thing you do, but much of what she says feels dated and elitist. She talks about how to train your ... Ler crítica na íntegra
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Procura do Utilizador - lycomayflower - LibraryThingI didn't enjoy this as much as I expected to, as I do somewhat consider myself an Eleanor Roosevelt fan. The book occupies some sort of space between a collection of personal essays and a self-help ... Ler crítica na íntegra
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| Título | You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life |
| Autor | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Edição | reimpressão |
| Editora | Harper Collins, 2011 |
| ISBN | 006207850X, 9780062078506 |
| Número de páginas | 224 páginas |
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