Eleanor Roosevelt

“If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.”

“No one can hurt you without your consent.”

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

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”

“Be confident, not certain.”

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.”

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

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“Work is always an antidote to depression.”

“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.”

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.”

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