A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
VICTOR HUGOIf you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
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If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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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. God is awake.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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