Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

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.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

I want to be loved while I’m here, and the only way to get love is to give love.

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

I’d tell you how beautiful you look today, but there’s not enough time before sunset to tell how you set fire to a sundress; my mouth is overflowing from yesterday.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

And somewhere in my time with you, the crickets emerged as birds and the blackened hills found their hue. My eyes fell on you; I didn’t watch the sun move, but I felt the world turn all night.

You demonstrate love by giving it unconditionally to yourself. And as you do, you attract others into your life who are able to love you without conditions.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

I’m fine with the ups and downs in our story as long as the theme is love.

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.