01UndatedIt takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
02UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedHappiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
04UndatedLife was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
05UndatedNever allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
07UndatedDo what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
08UndatedThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
09UndatedNo matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
10UndatedDo not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
11UndatedFriendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
14UndatedI have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
15UndatedToday is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
16UndatedOnce I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
17UndatedThe reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
20UndatedYou can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
22UndatedYou have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
23UndatedThere is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots.Eleanor Roosevelt / quote ↗
