“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”
— Charlotte Brontë
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
“What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.”
“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
“You are human and fallible.”
“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
“Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.”
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it’s expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it’s perils.”
“Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.”
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”
“The shadows are as important as the light.”
“Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.”
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
“God did not give me my life to throw it away.”
“Rapidly, merrily, Life’s sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!”
“Who has words at the right moment?”
“Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.”
“Look twice before you leap.”
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.”
“You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!”
“Remorse is the poison of life.”
“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
“What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?”
“I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.”
“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.”
“Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.”
“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
“Let your performance do the thinking.”
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
“I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.”
“He is not to them what he is to me.”
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me.”
“Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.”
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.”
“The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.”
“I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
“But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?”
“Your will shall decide your destiny.”
“Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.”
“Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.”
“His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.”
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