It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Things never happen the same way twice.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’
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