“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.comTagged: Mistakes, Experience, Failure
“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Love, Marriage
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.comTagged: Life, Choices, Motivational
“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.”— George Eliot, amazon.comTagged: Work, Career, Passion
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life
“You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”— Jane Austen, amazon.comTagged: Scars, Past, Pain
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Broken Heart, Pain, Heartbreak
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Intelligence, great minds
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, charity
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Independence, Women, Freedom
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Hard Work, Goals, laziness
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.comTagged: Children, Growing Up, forgiveness
“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”— Bram Stoker, amazon.comTagged: sympathy, Pain, Life
“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”— Wilkie Collins, amazon.comTagged: Good, Evil
“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”— Wilkie Collins, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Love, Money, Fame
“As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.”— Elizabeth Gaskell, amazon.comTagged: thankful, Life
“One can begin so many things with a new person! Even begin to be a better man.”— George Eliot, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Education, Learning, Lessons
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Single, Alone
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Life, fiction, fact
“I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.comTagged: Life, burdens, struggles
“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.”— H.G. Wells, amazon.comTagged: Change, Challenges, Intelligence
“It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side.”— Elizabeth Gaskell, amazon.comTagged: Hope, Good, Evil
“He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.”— Mary Elizabeth Braddon, amazon.comTagged: Love, Suffering, Madness
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.”— Bram Stoker, amazon.comTagged: Memory, Knowledge, Trust
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, Intelligence
“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: enemies, Self-Love, Hatred