Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
C. S. LEWISOne of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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You can make anything by writing.
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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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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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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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