Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. LEWISDon’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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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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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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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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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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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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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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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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