She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
C. S. LEWISYou never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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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 you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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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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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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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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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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