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.
CHARLES DICKENSSuffering 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.
CHARLES DICKENSI must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
CHARLES DICKENSA heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
CHARLES DICKENSA new heart for a New Year, always!
CHARLES DICKENSFacts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
CHARLES DICKENSHappiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
CHARLES DICKENSI hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
CHARLES DICKENSThe civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
CHARLES DICKENSWe need never be ashamed of our tears.
CHARLES DICKENSI have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
CHARLES DICKENSThe whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
CHARLES DICKENSIt is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
CHARLES DICKENSEverybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
CHARLES DICKENSSome people are nobody’s enemies but their own.
CHARLES DICKENSYou have been the last dream of my soul.
CHARLES DICKENSWhat greater gift than the love of a cat.
CHARLES DICKENS