Courage
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
From Jane Eyre (1847)
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.