To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert Happiness
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert Future
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert Work
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Gustave Flaubert Happiness
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. Gustave Flaubert Education
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Gustave Flaubert Art
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Gustave Flaubert Freedom
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Gustave Flaubert Women
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert Music
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert Poetry
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. Gustave Flaubert Inspirational