In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

I'd kiss you, but you smell like a gym bag.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

One in three Canadian teens are bullied. That's nearly two million young Canadians who are teased and excluded. Nearly two million who are silenced in the classroom, losing out on their education.