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“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“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.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“To have what you want is Riches,
But to be able to do without is Power.”
― George McDonald

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”
― Mark Twain

“Part of being made in God’s image is having a need to be in relationship.”
― Henry Cloud, Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't

“Hidden sins and problems are destructive to us, and if we long to grow, we would want them exposed and healed.”
― Henry Cloud, Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't

“How does our self-sufficiency ruin safety? Primarily by preventing us from experiencing our impoverishment. People who “have it together” are not hungry, or thirsty, for others. They do not feel a lack within when they’re alone or in distress. They do not connect with other people, because they do not experience any need for it.”
― Henry Cloud, Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't

“People often think the Devil tries to influence people to do “bad things.” While this is true, the demonic strategy is also much deeper. He tries to tempt us to get our needs met without relationship and without humility, the way he wanted to in the beginning.”
― Henry Cloud, Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't

“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
― John C. Maxwell

“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”
― John C. Maxwell

“You must do right before you feel good.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.”
― Ted Dekker

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”
― Albert Einstein

“The greatest stories about people, and what they achieved in their lives, are the stories of those people who chose to dream, and then went on to make their dreams come to life.  (Not surprisingly, there are no success stories written about people who have no dreams.)”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Gift

“The world is made up of those who take control of their choices—and those who don’t.  Those who succeed use this tool every day they live, from the moment they find it. What an incredible gift this tool is!  You get to make the choices that can change your life.   The”
― Shad Helmstetter, The Gift

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis