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| To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not. | Samuel Butler | The Way of All Flesh |  |
| For it is the mind which creates the world about us, and, even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. | George Gissing | The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft | |
| "It is no use lying to one's self." | Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House | |
| Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us. | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | |
| The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves; the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music; and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects. | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | |
| "Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | |
| When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself. | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | |
| He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | |
| I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "Nobody can spoil a life, my dear. That's nonsense. Things happen, but we bob up." | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | |
| "One gets a bad habit of being unhappy." | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | |
| It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last. | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | |
| Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no -- a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else -- gave way to the proposed arrangement. | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | |
| I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. | Ayn Rand | Anthem | |
| Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me. | Ayn Rand | Anthem | |
| Everything that Mr Smallweed’s grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly. | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | |
| "Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, As self-neglecting." | William Shakespeare | Henry V | |
"Where, you tend a rose, my lad,
A thistle cannot grow." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden | |
| One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden | |
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. | John Milton | Paradise Lost | |
