If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
C. S. LEWISIf you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
C. S. LEWISThere is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
C. S. LEWISIt is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C. S. LEWISIf you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
C. S. LEWISIsn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C. S. LEWISWhen the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
C. S. LEWISLove as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
C. S. LEWISLove may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C. S. LEWISThe 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.
C. S. LEWISFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. LEWISEating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C. S. LEWISThe fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
C. S. LEWISGod allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
C. S. LEWISNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. LEWISMiracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. LEWIS