Foreword (January 1960)

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

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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." in the context of "Foreword (January 1960)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

About Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (11 October 1884 – 7 November 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, social activist. and first lady (as the wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt).