My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
- Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
- Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
- With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- 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.
- The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
- I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
- Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- 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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Best Quotes
- To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
- My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
- What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
- Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
- To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.