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«To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to 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.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Joy,
Love,
Risk
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«We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.»
«The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.»
Author: James L. Christensen
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
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«Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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avoid, destiny, learned person, sorrow
«The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.»
«The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
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«To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.»
«To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.»
«The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
at leisure, avoid, leisure, miserable, wonder
«The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.»
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