Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTIt’s your life-but only if you make it so.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
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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.
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We do not have to become heroes overnight.
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