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.
C. S. LEWISLife with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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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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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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