Life Quotes Quote by Jane Austen, Persuasion — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

“Everything in life is luck.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.”

“Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.”