George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words – 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Be confident, not certain

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I was the same old me. Just like the Moon yesterday. But because of all the other factors that came to play, the darkness, the brightness, the blood red color. They all were a reflection, a projection due to the perfect set of circumstances. The Moon was still the Moon. But it was still labeled the Super Blue Blood Moon, Just so we can have some understanding, but, again I’ll state, the Moon was still just the Moon, just like I was still just me. Whatever you project on me, and I reflect back, doesn’t then make me become a new person, it’s just a reflection of your projection. I am still just me.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Your dreams may have shattered, but that doesn’t mean they are over. They can still be turned into a mosaic of success.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.