Inspiration Quote by Gustave Flaubert — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.”

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

“He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides”

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

“To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”

“Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.”

“The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”