Eleanor Roosevelt

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

I teach that all men are mad.

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.

Sir, I have no objection to a man’s drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Better is the enemy of good.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.