George Eliot

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."

"What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever."

"The law is only one aspect of our moral obligation to each other."

"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is often the refusal to listen to despair."

"Wear the world as a loose garment."

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

"The unexamined life is not worth living in any era."

"Every philosophy carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution."

"If your heart were a theater, what would it perform?"

"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and we should die of that roar which is silent all around us."

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

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

"There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than following your passions in a way that serves the world and you."

"Her heart went out to him at his look of despondency."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?"

"The years teach much which the days never know."

"Blessed is the man who has found his work."

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

"Wear the world loosely."

"If you wish to be made whole, you must first acknowledge your cracks."

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."

"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person."

"Every limitation is also a possibility."

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes at the close of a deceived hope."

"The formulas of virtue are the same across all lands."

"Growing old with you is like reading a favorite book repeatedly."

"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."