"Life has got to be lived -..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.”
“An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
More on Life
“Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
“I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?”
“No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”
More on Living
“If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.”
“There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.”
“Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”