Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

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

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

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

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.