Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
C. S. LEWISNothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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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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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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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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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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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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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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