God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
C. S. LEWISSome day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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.
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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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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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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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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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 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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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