Best Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes To Live By

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life...

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

All of life is a constant education.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.