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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.

C. S. Lewis

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Broken Heart Feeling Heart Hurt Pain Silence
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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Art Friendship Philosophy Survival Unnecessary Value
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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Attend Conscience God Pain Pleasure World
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Fear Gratitude Love Lust Past Present
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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Hurt Learning Sad Silence Speak Truth
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Broken Heart Heart Love Possible Vulnerable
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Break Up Happiness Healing Let Go Lose Overcome
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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Absence Break Up She Sky Spread Woman
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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Book Goodness Reading Rule Yourself
She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Expression Humour Hunt Live She Woman
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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Break Up Experience Humour Inspirational Let Go Pain
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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Change Growth Hustle Improvement Synthesis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Courage Fear Reality Simplicity Virtue
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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Crying Decide Healing Inspirational Let Go
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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Attempt Broken Heart Conceal Heart Pain Teeth
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Empty Enough Finding Gift God Recieve

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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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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