There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISDon’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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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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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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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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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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