More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
"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."
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."