George Eliot Quotes

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

I've always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed... as long as he's willing to rush into a burning building to rescue a basket of kittens.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there's no ideal - a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.

To love is to undress our names.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word for it.” “You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.” “I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I've discovered it's my only strength.

I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.

There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.