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.
C. S. LEWISYou can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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You can make anything by writing.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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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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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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 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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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