More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."
"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."
"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."