Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

"All that evil requires to flourish is the inaction of good people."

"The human heart has hidden treasures in secret places."

"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face."

"Books are a triumphal arch by which we enter into a higher world."

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

"A soul without love is like a body without a heart."

"Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable."

"If we have been bound together by love, we shall not be separated by distance."

"The greatest act of faith is when man decides he is not God."

"You were not made to be forgotten, you were made to be cherished."

"Never love anyone unless it is love."

"Some praise me because I am a woman who dares venture into the fields of literature."

"Life is not a spectacle to be viewed from the windows, but a battle to be fought."

"I instinctively rebel against authoritarian standards."

"Unless we believe in ourselves the world will not believe in us."

"God is present when we are wholly present."

"The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care."

"Art is the effort of man to express the idea that nature impresses upon him."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

"How many women kill themselves or are killed by some man's hand yearly?"

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

"I would rather be a superb meteor of every moment than a sleepy planet."

"The grand secret of being fully human is to love fully."

"Fear is a great teacher, but it is not the only teacher."

"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

"The world was not made so that we could do nothing."

"Women know the way to rally men, they think two of us talking together always means something improper."

"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."