A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
C. S. LEWISIt is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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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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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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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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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.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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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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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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