Here are a couple of random quotes. The first is courtesy of Sage Walker, the second from her friend Danielle from Montreal. Danielle thought it was Flaubert, but it was actually Stendhal aka Marie-Henri Beyle.
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
— Ted Hughes
La seule excuse de dieu, c’est de ne pas exister.
— Stendhal
Translation:
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
