True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Therese Of Lisieux
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  1. Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong. - Robert A. Heinlein

  2. You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. What you can't get is just what suits you. - French Proverb

  4. The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

  5. The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted. - A. S. Byatt

More Quotes By Therese Of Lisieux
  1. I am not afraid of a fight I have to do my duty come what may.

  2. Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences your own bright ideas and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out...

  3. The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

  4. The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

  5. Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.

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