“ Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. Charlotte Bronte
“ This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. Sh… Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“ She was herself unconscious of that faint hint of offishness which hung about her and repelled advances, an arrogance that stirred in people a peculiar irritation. They noticed her, admired her clothe… Nella Larsen
“ I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. P.D. James
“ Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. Saul Bellow
“ Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it. Kris Rafferty
“ No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, te… Fulton J. Sheen
“ We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life… James MacDonald
“ Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world. Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“ Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in… Fernando Pessoa
“ There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. Greta Garbo
