George Eliot Quotes
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.
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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
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Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
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When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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While the arm is strong to strike and heave, Let soul and arm give shape that will abide...
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Sad as a wasted passion.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
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Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me.
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It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance to make a difference. You can always make a change for the better no matter what background you derived from. You can always do your best and be all that you can be because you will always be uniquely you. It is why it is always wise to listen to your eternal heart, your eternal instincts, and what it had always strove for and/or to do because really anybody can make a difference not only in their own lives but in the lives of others. It is never too late to shine; never.