as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many. 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 birthalivedoe The shadows are as important as the light. Charlotte Bronte shadowimportantlight 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 wickeddesirepeople I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte moving-forwardmotivationalinspirational Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte forgivenesshatelife 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 comfortfeelingshappiness Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Charlotte Bronte expectationssuccesslife Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Charlotte Bronte inspirationallovelife Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte congratulationsjudgingmen God did not give me my life to throw it away. Charlotte Bronte give-megiving Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Charlotte Bronte life-and-happinesstastehappiness 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 brotherexercisemen 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 gourdsspringnight 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-goodbyeheartbreakthinking Better to be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Bronte feelingslifethinking 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-heartsilencedream 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-mejudgingmen I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Bronte inspiringinspirationallife Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. Charlotte Bronte forsakefortuneforget I would always rather be happy than dignified. Charlotte Bronte womeninspiringlove
