George Eliot Quotes
Comments on The Lifted Veil with a motto for it used in the 'Cabinet Edition' of her works (1878), in a letter to John Blackwood (28 February 1873), published in George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (1885), Vol. 4
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.
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I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do.
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Comments on The Lifted Veil with a motto for it used in the 'Cabinet Edition' of her works (1878), in a letter to John Blackwood (28 February 1873), published in George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (1885), Vol. 4
