Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
C. S. LEWISMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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