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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f0c1f21 | Relationships take work. Hours and days and years of getting close to that person. That's real love, real intimacy. If your mind to believe that the work isn't important, you'll not only be going against every plan God has for your life... you'll lose out on a chance to experience the greatest gift He's given us. The gift of true love. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 29a1062 | We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| d3373d6 | Her heart was talking now... | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| adbf1ab | Love is not possible without sacrifice, and sacrifice is not possible without love. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 49bd128 | The Flanigan family had a love that could laugh through anything, a love that knew no color barriers or resentment. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 43fc7e2 | A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them. | George Eliot | ||
| 56fa7b0 | They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness, such as she imagined when she fashioned the world afresh in her own thoughts. In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault. The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt: it seemed t.. | George Eliot | ||
| a1a9548 | She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. A new searching light had fallen on her husband's character, and she could not judge him leniently: the twenty years in which she had believed in him and venerated him by virtue of his concealments came back with particulars that made them seem an odious deceit. He had marri.. | middlemarch | George Eliot | |
| ded2a43 | Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her-- that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side. | self-justification | George Eliot | |
| c0c6318 | Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed. | George Eliot | ||
| 19b1404 | All these crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived,.. | George Eliot | ||
| 870a516 | I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. | poverty | George Eliot | |
| d610c99 | She had forgotten his faults as we forget the sorrows of our departed childhood. | George Eliot | ||
| f34177b | There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it. | George Eliot | ||
| eb00fef | In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in. | George Eliot | ||
| e494759 | She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was. | George Eliot | ||
| 6248f6f | It's an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease. | George Eliot | ||
| 92ac8a2 | I had a terror of the world. None knew me; all would mistake me. I had seen so many in my life who made themselves glad with scorning, and laughed at another's shame. What could I do? This life seemed to be closing in upon me with a wall of fire--everywhere there was scorching that made me shrink. The high sunlight made me shrink. And I began to think that my despair was the voice of God telling me to die. | George Eliot | ||
| e7479ff | I am not at all sure that the majority of the human race have not been ugly, and even among those "lords of their kind," the British, squat figures, ill-shapen nostrils, and dingy complexions are not startling exceptions. Yet there is a great deal of family love amongst us. I have a friend or two whose class of features is such that the Apollo curl on the summit of their brows would be decidedly trying; yet to my certain knowledge tender he.. | George Eliot | ||
| 3046b67 | A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow. | vows | George Eliot | |
| 11342d5 | Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating. | George Eliot | ||
| ec00e7b | Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool... | George Eliot | ||
| 13701dc | It's puzzling work, talking is. | George Eliot | ||
| 616a4e8 | A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping. | George Eliot | ||
| d17af1e | The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie. | lie lies pure | George Eliot | |
| 0c2244d | Certainly those determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and noble impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new Theresa will hardly have the op.. | George Eliot | ||
| 418ac28 | Men, like planets, have both a visible and an invisible history. The astronomer threads the darkness with strict deduction, accounting so for every visible arc in the wanderer's orbit; and the narrator of human actions, if he did his work with the same completeness, would have to thread the hidden pathways of feeling and thought which lead up to every moment of action, and to those moments of intense suffering which take the quality of acti.. | George Eliot | ||
| 829d806 | We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to. | George Eliot | ||
| 8b5578f | It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after. | George Eliot | ||
| f4ef397 | But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last. | George Eliot | ||
| 0bf5065 | Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers. | George Eliot | ||
| d65ea4c | Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me. Deronda: Only a fungoid growth, I daresay - a crowing disease in the lungs. | George Eliot | ||
| eaa3165 | I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content. | George Eliot | ||
| 186bbe6 | Each position has its corresponding duties. | George Eliot | ||
| 5ae43b8 | Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference. | George Eliot | ||
| eac3156 | We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours. | silence | George Eliot | |
| e081b30 | It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it--if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of the Unknown towards which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness. Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow liv.. | George Eliot | ||
| 5aad3a2 | I don't mind [being ugly], do you? | ugliness | George Eliot | |
| 330268c | A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change--they do, I know, God help 'em. | novelty | George Eliot | |
| 0497f4f | Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humouring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humour?' said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. 'The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.' 'With all my heart. But then you .. | George Eliot | ||
| 24d4e92 | Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the.. | George Eliot | ||
| a1bc937 | Mrs. Cadwallader said, privately, 'You will certainly go mad in that house alone, my dear. You will see visions. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. To be sure, for younger sons and women who have no money, it is a sort of provision to go mad: they are taken care of then. But you must not run into that. I daresay you are a little bored here with our good d.. | George Eliot | ||
| bc8447d | it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain. | George Eliot | ||
| 16fa785 | She looked at Will with a direct glance, full of delighted confidence. "You approve of my going away for years, then, and never coming here again till I have made myself of some mark in the world?" said Will, trying hard to reconcile the utmost pride with the utmost effort to get an expression of strong feeling from Dorothea. She was not aware how long it was before she answered. She had turned her head and was looking out of the window on .. | George Eliot |