"It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m n..."
- Coco Chanel
"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than ..."
- Charlotte Brontë
"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell,..."
- Dorothy Parker
"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"
- Tony DeLiso
"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."
- William Shakespeare
"Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling"
"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 ..."
- Jane Austen
"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."
- Steve Maraboli
"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."
- Roy T. Bennett
"If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."
- Sue Monk Kidd