After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you… — 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 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
For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and… — 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
“Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material… — 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
