Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.Eleanor Roosevelt
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
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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