“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, 1992
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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She wrote this in her newspaper column, not in a book. She was watching people shut themselves away from pain and calling that a kind of living death.
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