You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
C. S. LEWISSpiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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