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Top 25 Eleanor Brown Quotes (2025 Update)

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

1. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

2. “Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”

3. “There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.”

4. “Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.”

5. “Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That’s the trick. Finding your way back.”

6. “You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That’s the trick. Finding your way back.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You’re alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.”

7. “Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You’re alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “There is no problem a library card can’t solve.”

8. “There is no problem a library card can’t solve.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.”

9. “The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “You only have one life to live. Make sure its yours.”

10. “You only have one life to live. Make sure its yours.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.”

11. “We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.”

12. “Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.”

13. “Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.”

14. “A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Imagine what could happen if we all had the heart to be who we truly are.”

15. “Imagine what could happen if we all had the heart to be who we truly are.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “We don’t just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.”

16. “We don’t just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “The wanderlust crept up again inside her like a shooting star, a sudden, violent urge to escape disappearing into darkness again. She pushed down the afterglow and focused.”

17. “The wanderlust crept up again inside her like a shooting star, a sudden, violent urge to escape disappearing into darkness again. She pushed down the afterglow and focused.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “We were fairly certain that if anyone made public the various and variegated ways in which being an adult sucked eggs, more people might opt out entirely.”

18. “We were fairly certain that if anyone made public the various and variegated ways in which being an adult sucked eggs, more people might opt out entirely.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let’s just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.”

19. “Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let’s just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, “We’ll take it.”

20. “She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, “We’ll take it.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Sleeping was impossible, and we would often be found wandering the house, our white nightgowns gleaming in the darkness, a trio of Lady Macbeths, driven mad by the mercury.”

21. “Sleeping was impossible, and we would often be found wandering the house, our white nightgowns gleaming in the darkness, a trio of Lady Macbeths, driven mad by the mercury.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...”

22. “Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...”

— Eleanor Brown

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Eleanor Brown Quote: “We came home because we were failures. We wouldn’t admit that, of course, not at first, not to ourselves, and certainly not to anyone else. We said we came home because our mother was ill, because we needed a break, a momentary pause before setting off for the Next Big Thing. But the truth was, we had failed, and rather than let anyone else know, we crafted careful excuses and alibis, and wrapped them around ourselves like a cloak to keep out the cold truth. The first stage: denial.”

23. “We came home because we were failures. We wouldn’t admit that, of course, not at first, not to ourselves, and certainly not to anyone else. We said we came home because our mother was ill, because we needed a break, a momentary pause before setting off for the Next Big Thing. But the truth was, we had failed, and rather than let anyone else know, we crafted careful excuses and alibis, and wrapped them around ourselves like a cloak to keep out the cold truth. The first stage: denial.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “Yes, you’d make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That’s what every man wants in a wife – a vaguely alcoholic, fornicating thief.”

24. “Yes, you’d make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That’s what every man wants in a wife – a vaguely alcoholic, fornicating thief.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion that she had thought was her not liking him very much was, in fact, her not liking him at all. Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let’s just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.”

25. “This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion that she had thought was her not liking him very much was, in fact, her not liking him at all. Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let’s just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “How different her mother’s world was from hers. How different our mothers’ worlds are from all of ours.”

26. “How different her mother’s world was from hers. How different our mothers’ worlds are from all of ours.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “There were so many things that were not all right with Phillip, and even more things that were not all right with Phillip and me. And perhaps an even longer list of things that were not all right eith me individually.”

27. “There were so many things that were not all right with Phillip, and even more things that were not all right with Phillip and me. And perhaps an even longer list of things that were not all right eith me individually.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “They seemed to be accomplished... all of them doing something brave and new, making space for themselves without waiting for an invitation pg. 158-9.”

28. “They seemed to be accomplished... all of them doing something brave and new, making space for themselves without waiting for an invitation pg. 158-9.”

— Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown Quote: “You might think that it was Rose who had the strongest moral compass of all of us, but we believe that this is actually Cordy’s gift. Rose’s beliefs are cold and hard, and suffer no sympathy for humanity. But Cordy both knows right from wrong and understands that they are not inflexible ideals, that people compromise for the sake of war, and love, and pain, and that they are simply doing what they must.”

29. “You might think that it was Rose who had the strongest moral compass of all of us, but we believe that this is actually Cordy’s gift. Rose’s beliefs are cold and hard, and suffer no sympathy for humanity. But Cordy both knows right from wrong and understands that they are not inflexible ideals, that people compromise for the sake of war, and love, and pain, and that they are simply doing what they must.”

— Eleanor Brown

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