God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
C. S. LEWISHardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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You can make anything by writing.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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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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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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