Edith Piaf

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Me: Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, well-hydrated, flourishing.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.