Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
C. S. LEWISGratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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 all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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