God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
C. S. LEWISNothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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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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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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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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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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