You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give.
¶ (Attributed)
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45) [Anna Eleanor Roosevelt]
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
¶ (Attributed)
What one has to do usually can be done.
¶ (Attributed)
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
¶ (Attributed)
Quoted in H. Clinton, "On The Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Issues of Democracy (Oct 1998).
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you also have an obligation to be one.
¶ (Attributed)
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.
¶ This Is My Story (1937)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
¶ This is My Story (1937)
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
¶ You Learn by Living (1960)
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." ... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
¶ You Learn by Living (1960)
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
¶ You Learn by Living, Foreword (1960)
Courage is more exhilerating than fear, and in the long run it's easier.
¶ Letter to Joseph Lash (13 Feb. 1946)
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
¶ Remarks on "In Your Hands" booklet, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, New York (27 Mar 1958)
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
¶ You Learn by Living (1960)
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