Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

If you are good, life is good.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.