George Sand

It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.