There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LEWISIt 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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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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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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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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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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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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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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