There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISThe death of a beloved is an amputation.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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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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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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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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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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