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. LEWISFriendship 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 death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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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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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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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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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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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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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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