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.
C. S. LEWISDon’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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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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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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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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