If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
C. S. LEWISNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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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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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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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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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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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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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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