Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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

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

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

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.