Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another 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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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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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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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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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You can make anything by writing.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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