Candace's quotes

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"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading
386 people liked it

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

729 people liked it

"
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

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— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

15 people liked it

"All actual heros are essential men,
And all men possible heroes."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Aurora Leigh)

8 people liked it

"How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach when feeling out of sight."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25 people liked it

"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

tags: books, companionship, friends, friendship, god, reading, religion
30 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,432 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,185 people liked it

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

tags: humor, love, romantic, women
1,513 people liked it

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

tags: love, requirements
746 people liked it

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
— Jane Austen

397 people liked it

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

238 people liked it

"do you really think he likes me lizzi?"
"jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you the rest of it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: attraction, guys, humor, love, men, movie
240 people liked it

"What strange creatures brothers are!"
— Jane Austen

tags: brothers
136 people liked it

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do! My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you... Almost from the earliest moments of your acquaintance, I have come to feel for you a passionate admiration and regard, which despite my struggles, has overcome every rational objection. And I beg you, most fervently, to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

137 people liked it

"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
— Jane Austen

tags: humor, jane-austen
91 people liked it

"When I fall in love, it will be forever."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

81 people liked it

""A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.""
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

tags: amour
30 people liked it

"Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

16 people liked it

"No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her."
— Jane Austen

21 people liked it

"I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it."
— Jane Austen

5 people liked it

"It is not what we say or feel that makes us what we are. It is what we do...or fail to do.

Marianne, BBC 2007 Production of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility."
— Andrew Davies

tags: marianne
8 people liked it

"If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

6 people liked it

"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves, it is the woman only who can make it a torment."
— Jane Austen

tags: abbey, austen, jane, literature, northanger
18 people liked it

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: beauty, charity, inspirational, kindness
994 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,040 people liked it

"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

tags: love, romance
149 people liked it

"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: fashion, friendship, romance
94 people liked it

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)

tags: love, romance
232 people liked it

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship
191 people liked it

"I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel."
— Florence Nightingale

tags: everyday, heroes, heroism, life, practicality
5 people liked it

"Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward."
— Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

tags: christianity, inspirational
6 people liked it

"The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.' A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate---humble obedience---but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested."
— Elisabeth Elliot

10 people liked it

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child."
— Henry Ward Beecher

4 people liked it

"Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
— Henry Ward Beecher

tags: inspirational
5 people liked it

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable."
— Henry Ward Beecher

tags: love
4 people liked it

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns of all the world, she had to come into mine."
— Rick (Casablanca)

7 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,342 people liked it

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity."
— Margaret Nadauld

tags: religion, truth, women
327 people liked it

"Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

17 people liked it

"The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

23 people liked it

"When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

17 people liked it

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

154 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,460 people liked it

""There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.""
— Dwight L Moody

tags: pacifism, religous
1 person liked it