Eleanor Roosevelt Love Quotations

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

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.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

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.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

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