We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. LEWISLove as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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You can make anything by writing.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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