Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
C. S. LEWISThe death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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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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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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You can make anything by writing.
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God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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