Frases de Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Pienso que de algún modo, aprendemos quiénes somos realmente y después vivimos con esa decisión.”

“La ausencia hace que el corazón tenga más cariño.”

“El futuro pertenece a quienes creen en la belleza de sus sueños.”

“La amistad de dos personas es de fundamental importancia, ya que, sin el otro, uno no puede ser amigo de nadie más.”

“Lo más importante en cualquier relación no es lo que obtienes, sino lo que das.”

“La vida es para ser vivida, y la curiosidad debe mantenerse viva. Nunca se debe, por ninguna razón, dar la espalda a la vida.”

“Cuando la vida nos es demasiado fácil, debemos tener cuidado o quizá no estemos preparados para afrontar los golpes que tarde o temprano nos han de llegar. Seamos ricos o pobres.”

“El propósito de la vida es vivirla, disfrutar de la experiencia al extremo, extender la mano con impaciencia y sin miedo a vivir experiencias más nuevas y más enriquecedoras.”

“Yo no podría, a ninguna edad, ser feliz estando sentada junto a la chimenea y simplemente mirar. La vida fue propuesta para ser vivida. La curiosidad debe mantenerse viva. Uno no debe nunca, por ninguna razón, volverle la espalda a la vida.”

“Ganas fuerza, coraje y confianza por cada experiencia en la que realmente te detienes a mirar el miedo en la cara. Te puedes decir a ti mismo: 'He sobrevivido a este horror y podré enfrentarme a cualquier cosa que venga.”

“Se disfruta más haciendo disfrutar a otros. Debería pensar más en la felicidad que es capaz de causar.”

“Nadie puede herirte sin tu consentimiento.”

“Tenemos que afrontar el hecho de que o vamos a morir juntos o vamos a aprender a vivir juntos. Y si vivimos juntos, tenemos que hablar.”

“¿Cuándo serán nuestras consciencias lo suficientemente sensibles como para impedir la miseria humana en lugar de vengarla?”

“Aprende de los errores ajenos. No vivirás lo suficiente como para cometerlos todos.”

“Creo que si, en el nacimiento de un niño, una madre pudiera pedirle al hada madrina dotarlo con el mejor regalo, éste sería la curiosidad.”

“Cuando dejas de hacer una contribución, es cuando empiezas a morir.”

“La comprensión es una calle de doble sentido.”

“Nunca he sentido que algo realmente importase, pero sí la satisfacción de saber que las cosas que apoyaste y en las que creías las habías conseguido de la mejor forma que habías podido.”

“Si alguien te traiciona una vez, es culpa suya. Si te traiciona dos veces, entonces la culpa será tuya.”

“Si la finalidad del tiempo libre es dedicarlo a ver unas horas extras diarias de televisión, nos deterioraremos como personas.”

“Para ser ciudadano en una democracia, un ser humano debe tener un comienzo saludable.”

“Es mejor encender una sola vela que maldecir la oscuridad.”

“La construcción del personaje comienza en nuestra infancia y continúa hasta la muerte.”

“Ten confianza, no estoy seguro”

“Si el hombre va a ser liberado para disfrutar más tiempo libre, también debe estar preparado para disfrutarlo de manera plena y creativa.”

“En tiempos de cambio, quienes estén abiertos al aprendizaje se adueñarán del futuro, mientras que aquellos que creen saberlo todo estarán bien equipados para un mundo que ya no existe.”

“No te preocuparías tanto por lo que otros piensan de ti si te dieses cuenta de lo poco que lo hacen.”

“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.”