To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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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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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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