Eleanor Roosevelt

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."