There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISWe live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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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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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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You can make anything by writing.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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