Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

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.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Man is what he believes.

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

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.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.