Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
Eleanor RooseveltIt's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
Eleanor RooseveltI could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
Eleanor RooseveltWe don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Eleanor RooseveltI wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.
Eleanor Roosevelt