There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISGod 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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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