“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)
My Day (Primary source)
Collections of Roosevelt’s syndicated newspaper column written six days weekly from 1935-1962, offering accessible, diary-like observations on daily life, politics, civil rights, and current events that reached millions of American readers.
“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)“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.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.”
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“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Time is an herb that cures all diseases.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“If you have time don’t wait for time.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)