Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Many will walk in and out of your life,but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Life teaches you that you cannot attain real maturity until you are ready to accept this harsh knowledge, this limitation in yourself,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I think everyone, at some time in his life, has this happen to him, comes face to face with the bitter realization… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for… — 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 Image
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
