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.
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.
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