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To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Life is a stern business in any case: why pretend that it is anything else?

I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it

While my care was employ'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason.

Expect no healthy conclusions from me this month, reader; I can offer you only sick men's dreams.

You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.

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.

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!

I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me—for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it.

but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault; for God has made all men to be happy, to be free from perturbations.

To admit failure at this stage was hard, but the facts had to be faced.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Whats'ever 'appens to you--whats'ever--you'd be a princess all the same--an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.

If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.

At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.

Fatal is the discovery that our friend is fallible, that he has prejudices.

I seemed to have nothing left to live for.