Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. LEWISEveryone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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