You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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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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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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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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