Victor Hugo |
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.