It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you havent gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works. – David D. Burns