Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The past is not what it was.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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