“Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness - yes, goodness. I wish to be a better man than I have been,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.” — charlotte brönte Copy Share Image
“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I have not much pride under such circumstances; I would always rather be happy than dignified.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that i imagined my fortune had passed its meridian and must now decline.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?"… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Come to me - come to me entirely now,' said he: and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another. Chance has meted you a measure of happiness:… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Rochester talking to Jane: I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,--'I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“St. John,” I said, “I think you are almost wicked to talk so. I am disposed to be as content as a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“make my happiness , i will make yours . let no man prevent me , i have her and i will keep her.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“there was ever in Mr. Rochester (so at least I thought) such a wealth of the power of communicating happiness, that to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine fo food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
