Paul Bourget Quotes

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.