“In short, LIVING seems to me a business for which I was not made, and yet...!Source: The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time
“We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
“If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time
“There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh
“The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount