When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
C. S. LEWISWhat draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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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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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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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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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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You can make anything by writing.
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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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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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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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