Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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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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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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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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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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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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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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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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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