"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it."
― George Eliot
Topic(s):
Happiness
― George Eliot
More From George Eliot
- "A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."
- "We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves."
- "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
More In Happiness
- "There’s a higher form of happiness in commitment. I’m counting on it."― Claire Forlani
- "I see happiness as a by-product. I don’t think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made."― James Hillman
- "Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."― Andre Maurois