Courage, dear heart.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at. Louis C.K.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”

“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”

“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

“There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.”

“Things never happen the same way twice.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”

“Good English’ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”

“Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”

“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”

“Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”

“Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.”

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

“If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?”

“You must ask for God’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.”

“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”

“To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.”

“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

“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.”

“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.”

“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”

“You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.” – C.S. Lewis

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”

“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”

“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”