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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Destiny Extraordinary Motivational Person Prepare Work Hard
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Character Goodness Inspirational Integrity One Liner Watch
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
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Life Live One Liner Ordinary People Special
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
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Cease Forgiveness Love Remove Spite
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
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Behind Break Up Healing Inspirational Leaving One Liner
Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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Attitude Enjoyment Fun Happiness Life
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Difficult God Immunity Peace Religion Trouble
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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Finding Lying Strength Try Walk Wind
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Atheist Man Reading Sound Young
If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
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Attitude Healing Satisfaction Self Love World
If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Break Up Broken Heart Couple Hurt Love Worth
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Empty Enough Finding Gift God Recieve
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Dedication Future Life Motivational Success Time
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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Break Up Experience Humour Inspirational Let Go Pain
I was with book, as a woman is with child
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Book Children Habit One Liner Woman
Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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Business Dedication Hustle Motivational Shine Success
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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Forgiveness God Guilty Ourselves Religion
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Fear Gratitude Love Lust Past Present
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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Book Habit Imagination Interest Writing
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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Atheist Finding God Religion Universe
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
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Admire Book Combination Eat Pleasure Reading
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Death Emotional Love One Liner Sad
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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Earth FAction Heart Heaven Home Proof

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