What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTIf we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOTThe 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.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOTThat by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOTOne must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOT