Honoré de Balzac

“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Inspirational #Motivational #Helping Others

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Love #Inspiring #Positivity

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Inspirational #Willpower #Talent

“If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Suicide #Wall #Writing

“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Love #Anniversary #Marriage

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Love #May #Immensity

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Life #Giving #Doubt

“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Beauty #Stupid #Intelligent

“To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Inspirational #Men #Law

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Love #Life #Heart

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, ...”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Love Is #Infinite #Equal

“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Being Yourself #Work #Being Single

“If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Spring #Years #Enemy

“The more you judge, the less you love.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Judging #Criticism

“The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Loss #Secret #Crime

“The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Country #Paris #Trying

“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Love #Men #Play

“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Literature #Virtuous Woman #Virtuous

“Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Looks #Sometimes #Moments

“I am a galley slave to pen and ink.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Writing #Ink #Slave

“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Being Alone #Solitude #Needs

“Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Angel #Men #Compassion

“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#House #Literature #Ruins

“What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Children #Two #Fruit

“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Demand #Firsts #Should

“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Joy #Sorrow #Excess

“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Diving #Literature #Pearls

“I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Love #Kissing #Thinking

“To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Laughter #Joining

“Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.”
-- Honore de Balzac

#Light