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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Life
Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Dickens
Educational, Keys, Doors
Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens
Suffering Pain, Broken, Expectations
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Charles Dickens
Procrastination, Advice, Thieves
Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.160, Penguin

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Dickens
Life, Littles, Helping

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Dickens
Happiness, Being Happy, Delight
"Fictional character: Vincent Crummles". "Nicholas Nickleby", www.imdb.com. 2002.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Family
"Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Charles Dickens
Self Confidence, World, Conquer

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Charles Dickens
Love, Dream, Men

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Charles Dickens
Spring, Communication, Winter
A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens
Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Chains
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

Charles Dickens
Book, Reading, Tire
Charles Dickens (1914). “A Charles Dickens Birthday Book”

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens
Love, Creativity, Differences
Charles Dickens (1906). “Works, ed. by G.K. Chesterton and W. Jerrold. 22 vols.”

I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Flower, Clouds
Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.353

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

Charles Dickens
Class, Ordinary, Citizens

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Charles Dickens
Nature, Firsts, Sun
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.294, Cosimo, Inc.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens
Happiness, Inspiring, Laughter
Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.59, Penguin

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens
Friendship, Relationship, Goodbye
Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.22

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Dickens
People, Enemy
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Adventures of Oliver Twist: Also, Pictures from Italy, and American Notes for General Circulation”, p.188

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Lasts, Remember
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.10709, Delphi Classics

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

Charles Dickens
Men, Improvement, Improving

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

Charles Dickens
Love, Teacher, Wonderful
Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.774, Cosimo, Inc.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Dickens
Family, Blood, Giving

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Dickens
Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude
Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.211

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