Go forward with joyful confidence.
George EliotRead
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep affection for autumn and its beauty.
In this quote, George Eliot conveys a profound connection to the autumn season, suggesting that the richness and beauty of this time of year resonate deeply within her soul. The use of the word 'delicious' emphasizes the sensory joys of autumn, highlighting the vibrant colors, crisp air, and comforting ambiance that envelop this season, implying that it nourishes her spirit much like a delightful meal.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a fall gathering to celebrate the beauty of the season.
Go forward with joyful confidence.
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel β that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.
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There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.
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