"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more……" — Ellen Goodman
"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."
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43 Quotes by Ellen Goodman
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
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Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for…
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe…
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems.…
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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence…
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Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
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She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
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What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The…
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It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to…
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to…
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the…
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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