"Even in the darkest moments, the smallest spark of hope can light up a lifetime."

“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Author : Coco Chanel

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Author : Coco Chanel

Elegance is refusal.

Author : Coco Chanel

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Author : Coco Chanel

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Author : Coco Chanel

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Author : Coco Chanel

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Author : Coco Chanel

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Author : Coco Chanel

Great loves too must be endured.

Author : Coco Chanel

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Author : Coco Chanel

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Author : Coco Chanel

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Author : Coco Chanel

A woman has the age she deserves.

Author : Coco Chanel

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Author : Coco Chanel

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Author : Coco Chanel

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Author : Coco Chanel

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Author : Coco Chanel

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Author : Coco Chanel

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Author : Chanakya

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Author : Chanakya

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Author : Chanakya

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Author : Chanakya

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Author : Chanakya

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Author : Chanakya