"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
— Charles Dickens

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
— Charles Dickens

"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"
— Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)

"There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart."
— Charles Dickens

"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. "
— Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."
— Charles Dickens

"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."
— Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
— Charles Dickens

"Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay."
— Charles Dickens

"There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose."
— Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)

"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
— Charles Dickens

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
— Charles Dickens

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

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

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
— George Eliot

"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
— George Eliot

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
— George Eliot

"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes."
— Walt Whitman

"If you done it, it ain't bragging."
— Walt Whitman

"Every man dies, not every man truly lives"
— Walt Whitman

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."
— Walt Whitman

"Life is a competition... Not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives. Each to master some weakness of yesterday. Each day to repair a mistake; Each day to surpass ourselves."
— David B. Haight

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change"
— Charles Darwin

"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
— Charles Darwin

"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men"
— Charles Darwin

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts."
— Charles Darwin

"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
— Bertrand Russell

" There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
— Indira Gandhi

""Competition is my life; winning is my only goal" "
— Daley Thompson

"Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question."
— Susan Jane Gilman (Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess)

"Play to win, not "not to lose"."
— Dondi Scumaci

"It's best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals."
— despair.com(on goals)

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
— Gustave Flaubert

"Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."
— Douglas Bader

"The wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the illusion under which our minds work, that we fail to realize it ourselves, so we seek the advice and the guidance of 'Enlightened Ones'."
— Sharon Ellis

""We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
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— Ben Sweetland