I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
C. S. LEWISDo not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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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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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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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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