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.
C. S. LEWISForgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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You can make anything by writing.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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 was with book, as a woman is with child
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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When 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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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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