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.
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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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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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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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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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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 live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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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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