You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Eleanor Roosevelt
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0062061577
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
that spirit of adventure, life can be a dull business. With it, there is no situation, however limiting, physically or economically, which cannot be filled to the brim with interest. Indeed, without interest, it is almost impossible to continue to learn; certainly, it is impossible to continue to grow. Now and then, I am surprised to read of the death of someone I have known, because I thought he or she had died long ago. Actually, he had only stopped growing. Other people, against tremendous
little, coming to understand the feelings of that other human being. Intellectually, one may have known for years that certain needs exist, but until one sees with one’s own eyes and comes to feel with one’s own heart, one will never understand other people. If you are to get along with people, if you are to get the best out of your dealings with them, on whatever level, it is not enough merely to win their confidence. You must be able to estimate the extent to which you succeed in communicating
much sense to him. He used this point as a start in discussing government problems and he reached and held the attention of people who had given little thought to such problems. But he invariably put across what he had to say, identified himself with his audidence, discussed the young men who would go out of school or college to the impersonal machine of the armed services; from that he led them easily to a discussion of what was required for defense, what its needs were for the protection of
constantly telling me that there are vast areas of the country where few newspapers attempt any real coverage of the news. This background of information is becoming increasingly difficult to attain. Year by year there are fewer newspapers; it becomes more and more difficult to hear two sides of the news. “How are we going to find out the facts?” people ask me over and over. “We are not afraid of forming our own judgments, but we must have a concrete and reliable body of evidence on which to
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