Colette

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

"Hope costs nothing."

"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."

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

"Hope costs nothing."

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

"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)"