"You rarely achieve finality. If you did,..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.”
“The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.”
“To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.”
More on Life
“The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.”
“Everything has to do with loving and not loving.”
“Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.”
More on Growth
“You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.”