Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Inspiring, Teacher

  "Your Teens and Mine".

• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Running, Peace

• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

• All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Regret, Stress

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

• A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Music, Book

• After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Discovery, World

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

• The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Letting Go, Return

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