Charlotte Bronte Famous Quotes
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it.
"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure."
Look twice before you leap.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
"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 there, firm as weeds among rocks."
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."
Charlotte Bronte Quotations
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
Hume
"We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here."
Susan S Taylor
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."
Helena Rubinstein
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Holly Lisle
"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."
Alec Bourne
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
Kahlil Gibran
Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.
Mary Day Winn
"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it."
Oprah Winfrey
"Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us."
Charles Schwab