Eleanor Roosevelt cytaty

strona 3

„Nikt nie może sprawić byś poczuł się gorszy bez twojego przyzwolenia.”

„Musisz zaakceptować to, co nadejdzie, a jedyną ważną rzeczą jest to, że przy spotkaniu dasz z siebie wszystko, co masz najlepszego.”

„Dwa rodzaje ludzi niczego nie osiągną: ci, którzy wstają dopiero długo po obudzeniu się, oraz ci, którzy się budzą dopiero długo po wstaniu.”

„Życie jest po to, żeby żyć. Trzeba podtrzymywać w sobie ciekawość. Najgorszą rzeczą jest rezygnacja. Nie wolno nigdy, z żadnego powodu, odwracać się do życia plecami.”

„Każde doświadczenie czegoś uczy. Kiedy przestajesz się uczyć, przestajesz żyć w pełnym tego słowa znaczeniu. A celem życia jest, przede wszystkim, przeżyć je, do granic możliwości doświadczyć wszystkiego co piękne, wytrwale i bez obaw zdobywać nowe i bogatsze doświadczenie.”

„Pozwoliło jej zbudować inny, nowy związek z mężem.”

„Poważne, niezbyt urodziwe dziecko… mała, stara kobieta.”

„Dzieci najuważniej słuchają, kiedy mówi się nie do nich.”

„Kobiety są jak torebki z herbatą. Nigdy nie wiesz, jak silne są, dopóki nie umieścisz ich w gorącej wodzie.”

“We should begin in our own environment and in our own community as far as possible to build a peace-loving attitude and learn to discipline ourselves to accept, in the small things of our lives, mediation and arbitration.”

“I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

“Work is always an antidote to depression.”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…”

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”

“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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”

“Courage is exhilarating.”

“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”

“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.”

“All of life is a constant education.”

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

“You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.”

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

“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”

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

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”