We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
Marcel Proust Quotations
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The true paradises are paradises we have lost.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.