Life Quotes Quote by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

“One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”

“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.”

“In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”

“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”