Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
—George Gissing
Topics: Optimism, Health, Positive Attitudes
The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.
—George Gissing
Topics: Acceptance
Have the courage of your desire.
—George Gissing
Topics: Bravery, Success, Desire, Courage
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar’s promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May—how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
—George Gissing
Topics: Hope
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
—George Gissing
Topics: Realization, Acceptance, Awareness
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
—George Gissing
Topics: Time, Time Management
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience.
—George Gissing
Topics: Time Management
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
—George Gissing
Topics: Bravery, Courage, Weather
I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
—George Gissing
Topics: The Present
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
—George Gissing
Topics: Reading, Books
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