It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot
Hopefully with each thing that you do youre learning something, youre growing, and youre pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think youd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didnt feel like Oh, wow. I feel like Im doing something a little different this time. – Rian Johnson