Janet Smith > Janet's Quotes

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"

I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.

"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
― George Sand, Letters of George Sand

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee