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"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
"Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still."
"I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I concluded it would be a waste of labour. "Doubtless," though I, "she is some stiff old maid ; for though the daughter of Madame Reuter, she may well number upwards of forty winters; besides, if it were otherwise, if she be both young and pretty, I am not handsome, and no dressing can make me so, therefore I'll go as I am." And off I started, cursorily glancing sideways as I passed the toilet-table, surmounted by a looking-glass: a thin irregular face I saw, with sunk, dark eyes under a large, square forehead, complexion destitute of bloom or attraction; something young, but not youthful, no object to win a lady's love, no butt for the shafts of Cupid."
"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
"I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs."
Exlpore more Happiness quotes
"Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception."
"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
"Each day should be a day of rejoicing. Give thanks and celebrate in all things."
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!"
"It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression."
"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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