Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. LEWISWhen 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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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You can make anything by writing.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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