When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.