"Unrequited love is as different from the..." - Quote by George Sand

“Where love is absent there can be no woman.”

“Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.”

“[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!”

“I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”

“I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man.”

“...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.”

“Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours”

“The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.”