More from Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor 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 RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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More on absence
I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Never find fault with the absent.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru When your life is working there will be an absence of drama.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant
