Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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