Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C. S. LEWISIf you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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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 a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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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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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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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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