George Eliot

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face."

- George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

- George Eliot

"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."

- George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

- George Eliot

"That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow."

- George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other and to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

- George Eliot

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."

- George Eliot

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

- George Eliot

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. Mighty is the force of motherhood!"

- George Eliot

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

- George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

- George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

- George Eliot

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

- George Eliot

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns."

- George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting."

- George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting."

- George Eliot

"We could have never loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."

- George Eliot

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

- George Eliot

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"

- George Eliot

"Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticism."

- George Eliot

"What are we here for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

- George Eliot

"Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

- George Eliot

"Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

- George Eliot

"Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

- George Eliot

"What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other."

- George Eliot

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for one another."

- George Eliot

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

- George Eliot

"Sharing three favorites (let us hope to continue evolving in these ways to radiate healing): —“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.” –George Eliot"

- George Eliot

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

- George Eliot

"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

- George Eliot

"There 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 Eliot

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for one another?"

- George Eliot

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

"“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”"

- George Eliot

"Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow."

- George Eliot

"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."

- George Eliot

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."

- George Eliot

"“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”"

- George Eliot

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

- George Eliot

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."

- George Eliot

"It's never too late to be what you might've been."

- George Eliot

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

- George Eliot

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."

- George Eliot

"I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

- George Eliot

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."

- George Eliot

"A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."

- George Eliot

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

- George Eliot

"It’s a father’s duty to give his sons a fine chance."

- George Eliot

"Sometimes things fall apart, so that better things can fall together."

- George Eliot

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize."

- George Eliot

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize."

- George Eliot

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

- George Eliot

"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."

- George Eliot

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."

- George Eliot

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man."

- George Eliot

"It is never too late to be what you might have been"

- George Eliot

"It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been."

- George Eliot

""It is never too late to be what you might have been.""

- George Eliot

""It is never too late to be who you might have been.""

- George Eliot

"You are never too old to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them."

- George Eliot

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts."

- George Eliot

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

- George Eliot

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts."

- George Eliot

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

- George Eliot

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

- George Eliot

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit."

- George Eliot