Charlotte Quotes

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

You can't keep one disease and heal two others. When the body heals, it heals everything.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.