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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

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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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Attempt Broken Heart Conceal Heart Pain Teeth
You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Business Door Honesty Inspirational Please True
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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Crying Decide Healing Inspirational Let Go
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
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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Believe Death False Life Truth Value
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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Broken Heart Deep Disappointment Forgiveness Ideas Thinking
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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Confidence God Learning Love Marriage Valentine
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
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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God Hard Time Judgement Overcome Perseverance Situation
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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Direction Lost Mind Opposite Run World
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
The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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Beginning Dreamss Ending Holiday Inspirational Morning
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Body Deep Inspirational Life Peace Soul
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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Believe Coward God Ignorance Incognito Presence
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

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