“It's your life, but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial.”
More from Eleanor Roosevelt,
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they…”