Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
C. S. LEWISFor pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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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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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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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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You can make anything by writing.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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Friendship 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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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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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