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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

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“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.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
― Michael Levine

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
― Emilie Buchwald

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.”
― Barbara Johnson

“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”
― Bill Cosby

“...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free

“Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free

“Having received all the kindness and tender-heartedness and forgiveness we need from God, we become free to give to others without risk, because our deepest needs have already been fully met in Christ.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different

“...the great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other we see less of God.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different