Charlotte Quotes

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice

Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble.

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.

One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.