The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
C. S. LEWISI have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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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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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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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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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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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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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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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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