"I believe that all that we go..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.”
“The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.”
“Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.”
More on Life
“When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.”
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
“For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."”
More on Experience
“You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?”
“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.”
“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”