Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. LEWISFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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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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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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The 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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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