A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
C. S. LEWISGod doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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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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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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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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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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