"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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6/4/11

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Quotes

"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. " ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a byproduct. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more,
He who loses faith, loses all." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 should be curiosity." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can ... you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn't enough to to believe in it, one must work for it." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself." ~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." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart" ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never let anyone take away the Hope of your dreams..as you know they can come true. The future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of their dreams. " ~Elenor Roosevelt

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt (The Beauty of a Woman)

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt"

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, but you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mould it. You make it." ~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." ~Elenor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"The giving of love is an education in itself." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you." ~Eleanor Roat

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realised how seldom they do." ~Eleanor Roosevelt (Thyme and Again)

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