Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Happiness Quotes

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

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

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

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

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...

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.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite...

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite...

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

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...

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant...

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant...

I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor...

I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor...

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age...

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age...