inspirational And Philosophical Quotes
"The past is another country; they do things differently there."
-LP Hartley, The Go-Between
"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
-George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four
"Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."
-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
-Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle."
-Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
-Emily Bronté
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
-Charles Dickens,
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
-Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
"And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death."
-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
-Charles Dickens
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
-Charles Dickens
"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest."
-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart."
-Charles Dickens, Hard Times
"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
-Charles Dickens
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
-Charles Dickens
"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies."
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair."
-Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."
-Charles Dickens
"Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
"I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
-Charles Dickens
"There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
