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"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
"You can't know, you can only believe—or not."
"You can never know how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching."
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way."
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"You can never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time. It's time that rules and ours is still too short."
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn."
"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
"To love is to be vulnerable."
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."
"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."
"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"
"I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait."
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
"We are what we believe we are."
"You can never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like."
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
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"You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream."
"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn."
"I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity."
"You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but love cannot cease to will their removal."
"A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered."
"Motivation is like waiting for something to fall from the sky. Passion is what gets you out of bed in the morning."
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
"You can make anything by writing."
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
"Courage, dear heart."
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a man more clever devil."
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal."
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."
"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
"You can never know a man's true character until you give him some power."
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
"The way to people's hearts is through their ears."
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither."
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing."
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."
"We are all perhaps a little too eager to set ourselves apart from others."
"It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God."
"The heart never lies, it never can lie, it can be deceived by the head, but it can never deceive the heart."
"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."
"We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic."
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."
"You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve. And that is both an honor and a tragedy."
"The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not."
"Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
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