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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.

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Business, Goal, Way
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Air, Alive, May
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.96, Westminster John Knox Press

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Art, Censorship, Should
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.244, Columbia University Press

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Long, Looks
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Humanity, World, Unbreakable Bonds
"Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 134), 1963.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Journey, May, Autobiography
Eleanor Roosevelt (2014). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.7, Harper Collins

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Marijuana, Light, Dungeons

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Regret, Left Behind, Behinds
"My Days".

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Age, Looks, Aging
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational Life, Simple, Thinking
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Vacation, Needs, Need Sleep
"Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future".

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Loyalty, People, Giving
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Done, World

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Use, May, Obedience
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Opportunity, Want, Way
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, School, Atheism
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2012). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952”, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Writing, Expression
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Feelings, Impossible

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Long, States
"Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (pp. 119-120), 1963.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Entrepreneur, Growing, Wonder

I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe, Belief, I Believe

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Long, Interesting, Growth
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Mistake, Long

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