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.
C. S. LEWISLove is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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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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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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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 can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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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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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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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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