Eleanor Roosevelt

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

Be confident, not certain

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

What I mean is you make the world less ugly just by living in it.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them.

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.