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Victor Hugo Quotes about Life

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Inspirational, Life, Change

"Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography". Book by Victor Hugo, translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke, Funk & Wagnalls edition, 1907.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Life, Encouraging, Perseverance

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Life, Wisdom, Follow Your Heart

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Life, Les Mis, Terrible

"My midlife crisis has focused me on what to do between now and death" by Clare Allan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Love, Life, Happiness

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Love, Life, Happiness

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Life, Wisdom, Real

Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Inspirational, Life, God

Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Life, Wisdom, Les Mis

Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.286, Courier Corporation

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Love, Life, Soul And Body

Those who live are those who fight.

Life, Fighting

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Love, Life, Positive

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Love, Life, Romantic

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Inspirational, Life, Graduation

Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Life, Leadership, Waste

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Life, Country, Greatness

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Life, Dream, Men

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.

Life, Flower, Hair

Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Life, Dream, Different

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

Life, Men, Light

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

Life, Stars, Science

"Les misérables".

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