When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
C. S. LEWISYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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You can make anything by writing.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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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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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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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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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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Friendship 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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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