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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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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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Change Growth Hustle Improvement Synthesis
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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Break Up Experience Humour Inspirational Let Go Pain
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Death Emotional Love One Liner Sad
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Attend Conscience God Pain Pleasure World
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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Art Friendship Philosophy Survival Unnecessary Value
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Arrangement Bad Clever Egg Funny Goodness
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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Forgiveness God Guilty Ourselves Religion
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Broken Heart Burden Depression Heart Hurt Pain Physical
Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Experience Healing Judgement Life Man Struggle
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Friendship People Share Truth
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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Allow Experience God Lesson Life Teaching
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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Believe Faith God Life People Problem
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Empty Enough Finding Gift God Recieve
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Difficult God Immunity Peace Religion Trouble
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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Attempt Broken Heart Conceal Heart Pain Teeth
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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Dirty God Notice Presence Religion

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