Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
C. S. LEWISWe never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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You can make anything by writing.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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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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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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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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