George Sand

"I have always believed that a woman should be free to do whatever she believes."

"No man can truly love a woman who demands that she remain his inferior."

"The deadening effect of overwork is the same whether the work is mental or physical."

"There is only one happiness in life and that is love. Not romantic love, but the capacity to love."

"The most beautiful things are those that suggest infinite meaning and infinite mystery."

"Patience is not a virtue; it is a philosophy of the weak."

"A man who does not have a woman is like a house that has no walls."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose."

"I am not afraid to state the truth as I see it, even if it offends."

"Adventure is worthwhile and something we must seek if we are to live fully."

"The world has never been changed by someone who wrote a successful polite novel."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited to what we already know."

"The moment we stop exploring, we begin to die."

"True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."

"We must accept that some people will behave unjustly; our task is to love them anyway."

"History proves that the person who dreams wins out against the person who merely executes."

"The greatest of all virtues is not righteousness but compassion."

"There is no medicine like hope and no cure like love."