Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
C. S. LEWISIf nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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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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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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You can make anything by writing.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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