“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (unverified)
This quote is commonly attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
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“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)