“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)
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (Primary source)
Eleanor’s comprehensive life story, from shy childhood to global human rights champion, chronicling her transformation during FDR’s presidency and her post-White House work, including her role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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“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)“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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“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (unverified)“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Spanish girls make wonderful wives. I’ve never had one so I know.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
— Helen Keller (verified)