Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. LEWISFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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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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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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