We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. LEWISTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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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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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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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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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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Things never happen the same way twice.
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