Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
C. S. LEWISThe frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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