It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give… In any case, the giving of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
