EREleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Life dates: 1884 AD — 1962 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1923 AD

It 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.

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02c. 1923 AD

The 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.

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03c. 1923 AD

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

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04c. 1923 AD

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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05c. 1923 AD

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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06c. 1923 AD

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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07c. 1923 AD

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

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08c. 1923 AD

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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09c. 1923 AD

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

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10c. 1923 AD

Do 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.

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11c. 1923 AD

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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12c. 1923 AD

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

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13c. 1923 AD

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

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14c. 1923 AD

I 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.

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15c. 1923 AD

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

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16c. 1923 AD

Once 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.

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17c. 1923 AD

The 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.

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18c. 1923 AD

Do one thing every day that scares you.

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19c. 1923 AD

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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20c. 1923 AD

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

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21c. 1923 AD

All of life is a constant education.

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22c. 1923 AD

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

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23c. 1923 AD

There 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.

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24c. 1923 AD

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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