Charles Dickens

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

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.

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.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.

I think I am basically a happy person.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure and smell the flowers.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.