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“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
― Love Until It Hurts: The Work of Mother Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity
― Love Until It Hurts: The Work of Mother Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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“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. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Inklings
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The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, between the 1930s and the 1960s. Its most re ...more
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