C. S. Lewis Quotes About Life
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Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.
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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
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The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Do not dare not to dare.
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I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
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Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
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Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself
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Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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