Quotes of Gustave Flaubert

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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom.

- Gustave Flaubert

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“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

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

- Frank Matobo

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

- John Lennon

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ 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

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin