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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.

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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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Attempt Broken Heart Conceal Heart Pain Teeth
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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Break Up Experience Humour Inspirational Let Go Pain
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Arrangement Bad Clever Egg Funny Goodness
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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Believe Faith God Life People Problem
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Finding Lying Strength Try Walk Wind
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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Direction Lost Mind Opposite Run World
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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Deliberate Feeling Habit Love Strength Unity
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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Absence Break Up She Sky Spread Woman
Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Experience Healing Judgement Life Man Struggle
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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Evil Fight Finding Motivational Strength Try
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Broken Heart Heart Love Possible Vulnerable
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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Believe Coward God Ignorance Incognito Presence
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Book Enough Reading Tea
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Common Sense Contentment Love Possible Pride Spiritual
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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FAction Friendship Live Meditation Solitude World
God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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God Happiness Himself Peace Satisfaction

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