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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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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Things never happen the same way twice.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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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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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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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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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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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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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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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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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