Quotes by George Sand

Guard 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.

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Let us accept truth even when it surprises us and alters our views.

It 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.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Work is not mans punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.

No human creature can give orders to love.

Dont walk in front of me, I may not follow. Dont walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Work is not mans punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Faith 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.

The 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.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

“One is happy as a result of ones own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”