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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Inspirational, Success

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Looks, Sun

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Inspirational, Friendship

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Education, School
"Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Cities, Parks
"Trust Or Consequences : Build Trust Today Or Lose Your Market Tomorrow". Book by Al Golin, 2004.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Life, Travel

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Funny, Travel

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Inspiring, Loyalty
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace
Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Happiness, Rain

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Funny, Travel
All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Perfectionism, Not Perfect

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Earth, Artistic Temperament
Heretics (1905) ch. 3

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Real, Mean

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Book, Reading
Defendant (1901) "Defence of Penny Dreadfuls"

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Education, Book

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Home, Adventure
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, New Year, Eye

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Inspirational Life, Adventure

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Strong, Practice
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Nature, Stars
"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Children, Growing Up
'The Napoleon of Notting Hill' (1904) bk. 1, ch. 1

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