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“This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays