George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. ↗

— George Eliot

#man #outside #within

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes. ↗

— George Eliot

#youth #men

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. ↗

— George Eliot

#inspirational

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ↗

— George Eliot

#joy #love #sacrifice #love

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. ↗

— George Eliot

#knowledge #poetry #art

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

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

— George Eliot

#music #power-of-music #music