Be careful with the idea that ‘everyone is replaceable.’ Some people are truly one of a kind. If you lose them, life won’t hand you another version—you don’t meet certain souls twice.
The greatest value of marriage for me, is the bet of friendship and nothing reveals how precious and necessary that is, than adulthood. To have someone who is even willing to listen to you and understand you at all, is nothing short of a miracle.
Introverts love little moments of solitude. Sitting in bed on a quiet morning. Pausing to stare out the window. Thinking about life on an empty park bench. Sipping tea on the porch watching the sun go down. It's these little moments of solitude that make their soul happy.
Can a kind Woman e'er forget
The Infant of her Womb,
And 'mongst a thousand tender Thoughts
Her Suckling have no Room?
Yet, saith the Lord, should Nature change,
And Mothers Monsters prove,
Sion still dwells upon the Heart
Of everlasting Love. (Isaac Watts on Is 49)
Material wealth cannot be the measure of God in the life of a man.
There is nowhere in the Christian scriptures where this is mentioned, not one, not even as a hint.