George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Sympathetic people often don’t communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…

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’re gone.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

The opposite of love isn’t hate. It isn’t even indifference. It’s fear.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

I don’t feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there’s something that I really did do. I believe I’m just ordinary. And I’d like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

I’m fading away, you know I used to be on fire.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache!

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty thru good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present; it hopes for the future and it doesn’t brood over the past. It is the day-in and out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else is there, it isn’t enough.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

I won’t take anyone down if I crawl tonight. But I still let everyone down when I change in size.

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.