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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Bronte
Want, Firsts, Ignite

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charlotte Bronte
Doe, Alive, Birth

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

Charlotte Bronte
Pain, Flower, Taken
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.126, Xist Publishing

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlotte Bronte
Trying, Empty, Blank
Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.407, Everyman's Library

The shadows are as important as the light.

Charlotte Bronte
Light, Shadow, Important

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte
Inspirational, Motivational, Moving Forward
"Bronte goes pop...", www.harpersbazaar.com. August 23, 2011.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Charlotte Bronte
Happiness, Feelings, Comfort
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte
Life, Forgiveness, Hate
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Charlotte Bronte
Life, Thinking, Feelings
Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.895, Everyman's Library

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Charlotte Bronte
Destiny, Your Destiny
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Charlotte Bronte
Silence, Different, Kind
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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.

Charlotte Bronte
Broken Heart, Dream, Silence
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.130, Variocity

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.

Charlotte Bronte
Ocean, Sunset, Sea

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte
Dream, Sleep, Insomnia
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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.

Charlotte Bronte
Sad, Education, Weed
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

Charlotte Bronte
Summer, Morning, Spring

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte
Life, Success, Expectations
Villette ch. 36 (1853)

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Charlotte Bronte
Giving, Independence, Spirit

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

Charlotte Bronte
Sunny, Hours, Enjoy
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.54, The Floating Press

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

Charlotte Bronte
Believe, Sunshine, Life Is
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.350, Xist Publishing

A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

Charlotte Bronte
People, Wicked, Desire
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Remorse is the poison of life.

Charlotte Bronte
Regret, Poison, Remorse
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.115, Penguin

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Charlotte Bronte
Congratulations, Men, Judging

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Charlotte Bronte
Love, Inspiring, Women
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.333, Penguin

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