"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."

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Source : Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.130, Variocity

Charlotte Bronte

#Struggle Quotes #Independent Quotes #Bird Quotes

“To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that.”
“Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?”
“During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.”
“We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.”
“Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.”
“It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.”
“You don't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash”

Source : Song: Five Days Of Summer, Album: Constellation Me, 2010

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