Charlotte Brontë

"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 Brontë

"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."

- Charlotte Brontë

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

- Charlotte Brontë

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

- Charlotte Brontë

"I have, for the first time, found what I can truly love. I have found you."

- Charlotte Brontë

"You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world."

- Charlotte Brontë

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye."

- Charlotte Brontë

"I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Even for me, life had its gleams of sunshine."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps."

- Charlotte Brontë

"I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."

- Charlotte Brontë

"It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you."

- Charlotte Brontë

"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."

- Charlotte Brontë

"If we had no Winter, the Spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- Charlotte Brontë

"You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world."

- Charlotte Brontë

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

- Charlotte Brontë

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

- Charlotte Brontë

"Even on a cloudy day, the sun is shining somewhere!"

- Charlotte Brontë

"Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever."

- Charlotte Brontë

""Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.""

- Charlotte Brontë

"For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever."

- Charlotte Brontë

"For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms, but not to fever."

- Charlotte Brontë

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."

- Charlotte Brontë

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

- Charlotte Brontë

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."

- Charlotte Brontë

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

- Charlotte Brontë

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."

- Charlotte Brontë

"“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”"

- Charlotte Brontë

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."

- Charlotte Brontë

"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel his presence most when his works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night sky, where his worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest his infinitude, his omnipotence, his omnipresence."

- Charlotte Brontë