You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
C. S. LEWISIf you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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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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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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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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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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
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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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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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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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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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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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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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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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