You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
C. S. LEWISYou find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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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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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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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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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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