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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.

C. S. Lewis

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Cease Forgiveness Love Remove Spite
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Alone Bed Funny Habit Peace Sleep
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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Deal Future Inspirational Live Lose World
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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Deliberate Feeling Habit Love Strength Unity
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Beautiful Couple Inspirational Kindness Love Valentine
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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Earth FAction Heart Heaven Home Proof
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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Affection Feeling Goodness Love Obtain Steady
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Broken Heart Burden Depression Heart Hurt Pain Physical
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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Atheist Finding God Religion Universe
Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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Agree God Health Love Man Religion
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Beginning Change Ending Hustle Inspirational Life
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Behind Break Up Healing Inspirational Leaving One Liner
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Friendship People Share Truth
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Book Goodness Reading Rule Yourself
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Courage Fear Reality Simplicity Virtue
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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Attempt Broken Heart Conceal Heart Pain Teeth

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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