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Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. She was very showy, but she was not genuine; she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments, but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature; nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness. She was not good; she was not original; she used to repeat sounding phrases from books; she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own. She advocated a high tone of sentiment, but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#character-description #jealousy

I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce! ↗

— John Paul Warren

#conferences #crusades #eeaders #inspirational #john-paul

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides. ↗

— Matthew Norman

#leaders #leadership #politician #politics #ship

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over. ↗

— Nicole Sobon

#letting-go #life #moving-on #start-over #life

From his inside jacket pocket he produces a ring and gazes up at me, his eyes bright gray and raw, full of emotion. "Anastasia Steele, I love you. I want to love, cherish and protect you for the rest of my life. Be mine. Always. Share my life with me. Marry me". ↗

— E.L. James

#life

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#fate #life #life

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#fragile #frightened #hysteria #identification #reaching-out

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life

When you fall in love, your heart will pound so much you won't be able to throw a mouse let alone a cow pat. I don't think I could throw a mouse now. I dislike the idea of scrabbling little feet in my palm, unless they are yours, of course. ↗

— Eloisa James

#desperate-duchess #in-love #love #mouse #love

We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#mclean-sweet #sarah-dessen #self-discovery #what-happened-to-goodbye #life