Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

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.

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Whatever you have spend less.

Why do the words I want to say, struggle to come out of my mouth. Why does fear have such a grip over me. I shouldn’t have to battle to say all the complimentary things I so desperately want to share. It shouldn’t be this hard, that I have to force myself; it’s wrong that such loving words, should have to be spoken under such duress. I’m aware of how wrong it is, but withholding is all I have known, even though I desire so badly to share my thoughts and feelings with you, as freely as you do with me.

You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.