Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George SandRead
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Women have a deep and enduring capacity for love, often finding solace in higher ideals when faced with life's struggles.
This quote by George Sand suggests that women's love is unwavering and persistent, enduring even in difficult circumstances. When faced with challenges or disappointments, women tend to seek comfort and reassurance in something greater, which can be interpreted as spirituality or hope, representing their resilience and transformative nature in times of emotional turmoil.
Themes
WomenLoveResilienceHeavenEarth
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the power of love, one could use this quote to illustrate how women find strength in relationships during tough times.
More from George Sand
All quotes βHumanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
George SandRead
Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.
George SandRead
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
George SandRead
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
George SandRead
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
George SandRead
Similar quotes
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna
George R. R. MartinRead
Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
Paul EluardRead
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
Antoine De Saint-ExuperyRead
There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.
John KeatsRead
People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
Lord ByronRead