"We all grow older and we all..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.”
“it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.”
“The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.”
More on Aging
“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”
“It is time to be oldTo take in sail.”
“The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.”