Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Nothing in the world is entirely good or entirely evil."

"The woman who loves must give more than half."

"My mistakes and my disappointments were my best teachers."

"Death, however grim an experience, is not tragic because it is universal."

"The function of criticism is to make us see the object as in itself it really is."

"Art and love are the same thing: it's the effort to be beyond ourselves."

"Time is the most precious gift we have."

"I am neither cowardly nor bold: I am simply human."

"Success is relative; the more success, the more relatives."

"Poverty is the worst disease."

"The privilege of a lifetime is being yourself."

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

"Men do not realize how much light a woman can throw on their lives."

"Every thought we think is creating our future."

"The beauty of life is that we change."

"Where we live we shape the architecture of our souls."

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

"Money is a good servant, but a bad master."

"Health is the greatest of all goods."

"The more women are educated, the more they will understand themselves."

"Every day we live, we are writing our own autobiography."

"The quest is not to be famous, but to be worthy."

"A person may have a good and virtuous life without being magnificent."

"We must be as gentle with ourselves as we would be with a beloved child."

"There is an instinct in the human heart for justice."

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge."

"Loneliness is the poverty of self."

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

"True nobility is being superior to your former self."