It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts…

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Feelings Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more...

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more...

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.