...Je nโai pas cessรฉ de lโรชtre si cโest dโรชtre jeune que dโaimer toujours !... Lโhumanitรฉ nโest pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite dโamour, et ne plus aimer cโest ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)
George SandAll your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.
George Sand[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
George Sandliving for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.
George Sand