It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
George EliotWe are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
George EliotLove has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
George Eliot