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.
C. S. LEWISThe fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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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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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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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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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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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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