Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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