charlotte bronte Quotes 1

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

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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

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.

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

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.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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.

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.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.