"joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."

-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes.”

Source : Jesmyn Ward (2012). “Salvage the Bones”, p.262, A&C Black
“Love follows knowledge.”
“I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.”
“When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.”
“Are we changing as fast as the world around us?”
“Zee said, grumpily, â€œLiebling, this is not a good idea.â€ â€œZee,â€ I told him, â€œI am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.”
“The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.”
“Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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