Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
C. S. LEWISShe’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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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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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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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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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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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 meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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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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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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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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