You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

by Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and we have to offer it.

What matters now, as always, is not what we can’t do: it is what we can and must do.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, “It can’t be done.”