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.
C. S. LEWISWrite about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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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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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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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