"Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something."

-- Thomas Chalmers

#Weed Quotes #Giving Quotes #Infidelity Quotes

“lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.148, W. W. Norton & Company
“I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.”
“The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”
“Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.”
“Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.”
“It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.”

Source : Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”
“That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.”
“.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..”

Source : Steve Lopez (2008). “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music”, Putnam Adult

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