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.
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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.
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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice 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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