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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (Preface)
Life
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
love
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will.
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Uniqueness
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life
Learning
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
Autobiography
Work
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
Various speeches
hope
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Life
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Learning
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Uniqueness
You are to be proud of your enemy; then the success of your enemy is your success also.
Inazō Nitobe
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Relationships
The tripod that supported the framework of Bushido was said to be Chi, Jin, Yu, respectively Wisdom, Benevolence, and Courage.
Inazō Nitobe
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Learning
A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.
Inazō Nitobe
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Work
True happiness comes from making others happy.
Kenji Miyazawa
General philosophy
Kindness
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
Various writings
Gratitude
Be not defeated by the rain, Nor let the wind prove your better. Succumb not to the snows of winter. Nor be bested by the heat of summer.
Kenji Miyazawa
Ame ni mo makezu (雨ニモマケズ)
hope
With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.
Ryokan
Poetry
Kindness
If someone asks about my abode, I reply: The east edge of the Milky Way. Like a drifting cloud, bound by nothing, I just let go.
Ryokan
Poetry
Life
My legacy — What will it be? Flowers in spring, The cuckoo in summer, And the crimson maples Of autumn.
Ryokan
Poetry
Life
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen
Shobogenzo
Life
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
Dogen
Shobogenzo
hope
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