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1 " It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt
2 " The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. "
3 " Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. "
4 " Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. "
5 " Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. "
6 " Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. "
7 " No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. "
8 " Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
9 " Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. "
10 " It's your life-but only if you make it so. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
11 " Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , This is My Story
12 " I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. "
13 " Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. "
14 " The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. "
15 " Do one thing every day that scares you. "
16 " With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. "
17 " You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , This I Remember
18 " All of life is a constant education. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , The Wisdom Of Eleanor Roosevelt
19 " You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. "
20 " There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots. "
