The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.Eleanor Roosevelt
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
Diplomat and activist · 1884 – 1962
Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, from 1933 to 1945, and reinvented the role as a platform for civil rights and social reform. Afterward she became a US delegate to the United Nations and chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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