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. - Charlotte Bronte
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. - Charlotte Bronte
Look twice before you leap. - Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. - Charlotte Bronte
I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. - Charlotte Bronte
It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it. - Charlotte Bronte
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. - Charlotte Bronte
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. - Charlotte Bronte
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - charlotte bronte
I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward. - Charlotte Bronte