01c. 1840 ADThe old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.George Sand / quote ↗
02c. 1840 ADFaith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.George Sand / quote ↗
04c. 1840 ADGuard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose without regret how to acquire without meanness know how to replace in your heart by the happiness of those you love the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.George Sand / quote ↗
05c. 1840 ADLife in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand / quote ↗
07c. 1840 ADIt is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years and that too with surprising strides.George Sand / quote ↗
09c. 1840 ADDon't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.George Sand / quote ↗
10c. 1840 ADWork is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.George Sand / quote ↗
12c. 1840 ADWomen love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.George Sand / quote ↗
13c. 1840 ADSimplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.George Sand / quote ↗
14c. 1840 ADFaith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.George Sand / quote ↗
15c. 1840 ADThe beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.George Sand / quote ↗
17c. 1840 ADHe who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.George Sand / quote ↗
