💬 Quotes

"Pauvre petit curé de Cucugnan! Il ne dormait plus, il ne mangeait plus, il se consumait de chagrin en pensant que son troupeau était en train de se perdre."

"C'est l'histoire de maître Cornille et de son moulin, une histoire triste et touchante du vieux temps."

"Ah! les braves gens! Comme ils m'écoutaient! Et comme ils se sentaient heureux de retrouver un peu de leur cher pays dans mes histoires!"

"Le soleil se couchait derrière les montagnes, inondant la plaine d'une lumière dorée et mélancolique, propice aux légendes et aux souvenirs."

"All for one, one for all—that was our oath, and by heaven, we have kept it through blood and tears."

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

"It is not down on any map; true places never are."

"I leave a white whale's hide to enshrine such a terrible truth."

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the full and flowing bowl."

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks."

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him to himself."

"The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers."

"A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."

"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."

"Francis did not want to reform the Church by criticizing it from the outside; he wanted to renew it by living the Gospel in its most radical, humble form."

"For Francis, poverty was not merely a lack of possessions, but a way of clearing the heart so that it could be completely filled by God."

"The secret to Francis’s joy was his profound realization that he was not the owner of his life, but a brother to all of creation."