I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

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• Eleanor Roosevelt:

  The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific

• Eleanor Roosevelt:

  I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outsid

• Epictetus:

  Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased

• Epictetus:

  Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

• Epictetus:

  Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

• Epictetus:

  Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the wo

• Epictetus:

  Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

• Epictetus:

  The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

• Epictetus:

  One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

• Epictetus:

  It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.