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. LEWISLove as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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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 you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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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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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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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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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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