Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C. S. LEWISEveryone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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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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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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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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