Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

All of life is a constant education.

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 wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused; when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character, putting together all their yesterdays and averaging them, we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support, it is worse than a large family, he is the silent poor indeed.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.