The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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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 is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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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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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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 never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight 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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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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