We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C. S. LEWISGod can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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 more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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Love 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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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