“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, broken, strength, Teaching
“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Blessings, thankful, Misfortunes, Optimism
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Failure, Success, Identity
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: procrastination, Waiting, Time
“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, amazon.comTagged: Crying, Tears, gentle, Awareness
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Expectations, enjoy the moment
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Opportunity, chances, Effort
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: broken, Heartbroken, Sadness
“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Questions, Lies, Silence
“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: enemies, Self-Hate, Hatred
“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, amazon.comTagged: Dedication, Devotion, Goals, Effort
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: looks, Facts, evidence, Assumptions
“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, Escapism
“I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Bored, Life, Death
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Mystery, Secrets
“I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: heart, Love, Heartbreak
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Love, Hope, Happiness, Peace, Reason
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Christmas, Holidays, Children, Kid At Heart
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Christmas, Holidays, Honor
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Laughter, humor, Fun
“'I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer,' said Mrs. Maylie; 'I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.'”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, Relationships, affection, Devotion
“My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Love, Women, Dating, Relationships
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, Bookworm
“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: strength, Sorrow, Despair, Sadness
“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Love, Sacrifice, Career
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: wasted, Time, Selfless
“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Wisdom, Head, heart
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, Illiterate
“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, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Ignorance, Worth, Value
“I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Weakness, Fire, motivation