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“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

tags: friendship

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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.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: love

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“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abuse, accepting, answers, autoimmune-disease, bullied, compassion, crying, cyberbullying, defamation, empathy, emptyness, faith, feeling-deeply, god, god-s-love, god-s-plan, gossip, grace, hacking, healing, hope, humiliation, ignored, illness, insight, introspection, job, journey, life, living, lonely, lonliness, loss-of-dignity, loss-of-faith, loss-of-family, loss-of-health, loss-of-time, lost, lost-children, mental-abuse, mercy, misdiagnosis, misunderstanding, mood, pain, physical-abuse, rejection, self-evaluation, sexual-abuse, shame, silence, sorrow, spiritual-abuse, struggles, tears, to-live, trials, tsloama, wrong-choices, years

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“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

tags: death, god, loss, purpose, understanding

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