Charles Dickens quotes
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Charles Dickens Heart quotes ⇑
Heart Quotes
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
All Charles Dickens quotes ⇑
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
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.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.