Colette

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

"Hope costs nothing."

"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."(Casual Chance, 1964)"

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise"

"No one asked you to be happy. Get to work."

"Hope costs nothing."

"What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner."