Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is exhilarating.

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

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

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

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

You bring out the be(a)st in me. Polarized tension, a raw slash of claw, swathed softly in love. A peace of my mind in tumultuous chaotic razor-sharp clarity, impulsive wit to wisdom, mixing addictive shots of cocktail emotions in a full-spectrum experience.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.