Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. LEWISLife with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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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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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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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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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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