More quotes by George Eliot

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."
"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."