“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What s important to me is not others opinions of me, but what s important to me is my opinion of myself.”
“Reality doesn t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”
“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.”
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
“I m single because I was born that way.”
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
“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 I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”