"I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd be so frightened of getting hurt that there wouldn't be any other way. But no. every time I meet someone I dive in headfirst, showering them with love and attention, and hoping that this time they're going to be different."

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Source : Jane Green (2003). “Mr Maybe”, p.136, Penguin UK

Jane Green

#Hurt Quotes #Giving Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.”
“Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.”
“The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.”
“For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.”
“The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. ... I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake, who willed to take His abode in matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. Never will I cease honoring the matter which wrought my salvation! I honor it, but not as God. Because of this I salute all remaining matter with reverence, because God has filled it with his grace and power. Through it my salvation has come to me.”
“When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.”
“One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others? weaknesses and fault. Kindness is extended to all--to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of stations as well as the high.”
“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.”

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