Erin > Erin's Quotes

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent