Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it."

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"Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"What you don't do can be a destructive force."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"For 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 Roosevelt

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Change means the unknown."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"I could not at any age be content to take my place 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

"When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!"

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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