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.
C. S. LEWISThings never happen the same way twice.
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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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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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 may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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