Life Lessons Quote by Charlotte Brontë — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?”

“I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And why weep for this? No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded; his heart will be undaunted; his hope will be sure; his faith steadfast. His own words are a pledge of this: “My Master,” he says, “has forewarned me. Daily he announces more distinctly, ‘Surely I come quickly!’ and hourly I more eagerly respond, ‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!”

“I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!”

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

“Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.”

“It is invaluable to find people who can show you how to walk through an open door. Have gratitude.”

“The waves of changes propel advancement.”

“We're all just sharing the same Wi-Fi signal of the universe, whether we realize it or not.”

“Thank God for closing certain doors. Some were going to lead you to the morgue.”

“If you don't create your own rules, they will twist and bend you to fit theirs”

“Look out for a closed door, study it carefully, and you will realize it closed for your good.”