"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.












Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
More Eleanor Roosevelt quotes
"It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a ...
"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
"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.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
"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.
"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
"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 cha...
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
"It's your life-but only if you make it so.