George Sand

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

"Talent is a long patience."

"Do not accept the things you cannot change, change the things you cannot accept."

"I am convinced that we must train not only the intellect but also the character of our youth."

"Write! Writing is for you, not for them."

"Guard yourself against the poisonous tongue of contempt."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

"Each human being has a work to carry forward."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be received."

"True love is an act of the mind."

"The artist is a lover of nature; therefore he is not a slave to nature but her priest."

"There is no greater glory than love, nor greater punishment than its loss."

"Act, act in the living present."

"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right order."

"Never lose a holy curiosity."

"Life is always rich and never miserable when the heart is true."

"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school."

"I love tranquility and silence."

"Devotion to duty is the mark of a great soul."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."

"There is no greater artist than nature."

"Faith is not the cringing submission of the conquered."

"Patience is power."

"To love deeply is to find one's meaning in another."

"I am not at all in a humorous mood."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"One must philosophize early and late."