Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Do something just for you every day which makes you feel good.
Take some me time to do whatever makes you happy, and create the habit of doing this every day.
By looking after your soul, it creates a ripple effect throughout your life, and others will benefit from the refreshed you.
MermaidDiagram Comment.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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!
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
In vain have I 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.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Angry people are not always wise.
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Time will explain.
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
Time did not compose her.
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Without music, life would be a blank to me.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.
…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…
…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…
These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…
Tempo ou oportunidade não determinam a intimidade, apenas a disposição.
I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)
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.
But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…
I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.
no hay que desesperar de lograr aquello que deseamos, pues la asiduidad, si es constante, consigue el fin que se propone...
Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados"...
I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.
Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?
I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.
Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.
She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.
…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.
You want nothing, but patience or give it a more fascinating name. Call it hope.
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
