She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
C. S. LEWISDon’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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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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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.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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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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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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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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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 have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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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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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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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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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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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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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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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