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![George MacDonald](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201019294i/2413._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't know how to thank you.'
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.”
― The Princess and Curdie
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.”
― The Princess and Curdie
![C.S. Lewis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1564671804i/1069006._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
![Kurt Vonnegut Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1433582280i/2778055._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
![Kay Ryan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1348711469i/74815._UY200_CR52,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.”
― Say Uncle
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.”
― Say Uncle
![Marcus Aurelius](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1430676293i/17212._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no part of it. At any rate, praise does not make anything better or worse. This applies even to the popular conception of beauty, as in material things or works of art. So does the truly beautiful need anything beyond itself? No more than law, no more than truth, no more than kindness or integrity. Which of these things derives its beauty from praise, or withers under criticism? Does an emerald lose its quality if it is not praised? And what of gold, ivory, purple, a lyre, a dagger, a flower, a bush?”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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