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

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for...

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for...

Flirting is a womans trade, one must keep in practice.

Flirting is a womans trade, one must keep in practice.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state...

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

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

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit...

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing...

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing...

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must...

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too...

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too...

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly...

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly...

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead...

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead...

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the...

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the...