Go forward with joyful confidence.
George EliotRead
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
One should be ready to cope with life even in the absence of happiness.
This quote by George Eliot suggests that while happiness is a desirable state, it should not be the only focus in life. Instead, it emphasizes the importance of resilience and the ability to endure challenging times, encouraging individuals to prepare themselves for life's inevitable ups and downs.
Themes
HappinessResiliencePreparationEnduranceLife
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about coping with life's challenges.
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All quotes βYou 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.
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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.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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.
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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.
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