Quotes of Gustave Flaubert

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

- Gustave Flaubert

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“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right. ”

- Becca Fitzpatrick

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine