Life Quotes Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Understanding is a two-way street.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

“I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.”

““No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.”

“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”

“It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!”