George Eliot Quotes

it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see over, people can't see in, and you also can't see out. So I've gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. I keep saying the same thing: it's not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.