Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. LEWISIf you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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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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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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You can make anything by writing.
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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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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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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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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 never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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