Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
C. S. LEWISThere is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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You can make anything by writing.
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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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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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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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 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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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 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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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight 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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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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