1987
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
134 min
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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