"My experience has been that work is..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most important word in the English language is hope.”
“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.”
More on Work
“Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.”
“I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.”
“I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.”
More on Mental Health
“Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.”
“All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.”
“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”