But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? Charlotte Bronte More Quotes by Charlotte Bronte More Quotes From Charlotte Bronte Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. Charlotte Bronte birth alive doe The shadows are as important as the light. Charlotte Bronte shadow important light 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 wicked desire people I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte moving-forward motivational inspirational Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte forgiveness hate life 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 comfort feelings happiness Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Charlotte Bronte expectations success life Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Charlotte Bronte inspirational love life Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte congratulations judging men God did not give me my life to throw it away. Charlotte Bronte give-me giving Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Charlotte Bronte life-and-happiness taste happiness Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. Charlotte Bronte brother exercise men Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. Charlotte Bronte gourds spring night Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! Charlotte Bronte saying-goodbye heartbreak thinking Better to be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Bronte feelings life thinking 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 silence dream To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment. Charlotte Bronte judge-me judging men I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Bronte inspiring inspirational life Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. Charlotte Bronte forsake fortune forget I would always rather be happy than dignified. Charlotte Bronte women inspiring love
