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

by Eleanor Roosevelt

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child’s education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can grow only as long as we are interested.

It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.

things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect.

Indeed, without interest, it is almost impossible to continue to learn; certainly, it is impossible to continue to grow.

With each victory, no matter how great the cost or how agonizing at the time, there comes increased confidence and strength to help meet the next fear.

A book is made to be read, not to be held.”

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

If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what they think of you, and you will think about them instead, you won’t be shy.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

The knowledge of how little you can do alone teaches you humility.