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121 " If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
122 " He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
123 " Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt
124 " I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. "
125 " The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans. "
126 " Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do. "
127 " Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. "
128 " It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. "
129 " Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success. "
130 " Understanding is a two-way street. "
131 " When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being. "
132 " If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained. "
133 " If you lose money you lose much,If you lose friends you lose more,If you lose faith you lose all. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62
134 " Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt , This is My Story
135 " I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them. "
136 " Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. "
137 " To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start. "
138 " The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. "
139 " When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it. "
140 " THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION "