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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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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You can make anything by writing.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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