More than 70 Quotes by C. S. Lewis , Literary critic, academic, radio announcer and British essayist, whose best known works are The Chronicles of Narnia, Devil's Letters to his Nephew and Cosmic Trilogy.
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1-Difficulties often prepare a normal person for an extraordinary destiny.
2-Failure, repeated failures, are traces on the road to achievement. One fails on the way to success.
3-You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.
4-Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people.
5-We are what we believe we are.
6-True humility is not thinking less of you; Is to think of you less.
7-What you see and hear depends a lot on your situation; It also depends on what kind of person you are.
8-Friendship is born in the moment in which a man says to another: What! You too! I thought it was just me.
9-Someday you'll be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
10-Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of any solid and lasting happiness in our lives.
11-Experience: that is the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, you learn.
12-I distinguish four causes of human laughter: joy, fun, joke and lightness.
13-Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. He has no courage to survive; In its place is one of those things that give value to the survival.
14-If we find the desire that nothing in this world can satisfy us, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
15-Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
16-Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
17-You can do anything when writing.
18-The task of the modern educator is not to cut down forests, but to water deserts.
19-Humor implies a certain sense of proportions and the ability to see oneself from the outside.
20-Love is something more severe and splendid than mere goodness.
21-Miracles do not break the laws of nature.
22-We do not know ordinary people in our lives.
23-Things do not happen the same way twice.
24-Do not you dare not dare.
25-There are many, many better things ahead of any that we left behind.
26-Because the present is the point at which time coincides with eternity.
27-I can not imagine a man actually enjoying a book and reading it only once.
28-The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That is the deal.
29-Humans are always claiming properties that are equally ridiculous in heaven and hell.
30-Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
31-If there were no work or whip, there would be no stable, no hay, no dungeon, no oats.
32-It is not worth reading any book at the age of five, but it is also worth reading at fifty.
33-Pain, injustice and error are three types of evils with a curious difference: injustice and error can be ignored by the one who lives within them, while pain, however, can not be ignored, is An unmasked, unmistakable evil: every person knows that something is wrong when she suffers.
34-Malicious words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart.
35-I believe in Christianity just as I believe the sun has been solid: not only because I see it, but because of what I see in everyone else.
36-Write about what really interests you, whether they are real or imaginary things, and nothing more.
37-With the possible exception of the equator, everything starts somewhere.
38-God allows us to experience the low points of life to teach us lessons that we could not learn otherwise.
39-The Christian does not believe that God will love them because they are good, but God makes them good because he loves them.
40-Jokes, like justice, appear with language.
41 Men are not annoyed by mere misfortune, but by misfortune which they consider an affront.
"No one ever told me that the pain feels so much like fear.
44-The invented things seem much more important than the real ones.
45-A woman understands by disinterest, mainly, to take annoyances for the others; For his man, means not to disturb others.
46. To be enormous and indeed evil, a man needs some virtue.
47-If you love deeply, you're going to get deeply hurt. But still worth it.
48-We have prepared men to think of the future as a promised land reached by heroes, not as what anyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does.
49. Man can neither do nor retain an instant of time; All the time is a pure gift.
50-You can not know, you can only believe - or not.
51. We must all be very careful with our genius, taking into account the difficulties that we must face.
52. Thanks to certain processes that we started within centuries ago, it is impossible for us to believe in the extraordinary while they have something known to the eye.
It is not simply fatigue as such that produces irritation, but the unexpected demands of a tired man.
54-When we lose a blessing, another often comes in unexpectedly.
55-We laugh at the honor and then we are surprised to find traitors among us.
56-There is something in all this that I do not understand: but if one day we need to know, you can be sure that we will know.
57-When you have truly learned to love your neighbors as yourself, you will be allowed to love yourself as your neighbors.
"Nothing is too strong-enough to deprive a man of his best years.
59. An explanation of the cause is not a justification by reason.
60-There is still hope, when we face without prejudice to an unresolved problem. However, there is no hope if we act as if the problem does not exist.
61-There is nothing that spoils more the taste of a good meal like the memory of another magical but perverse food.
62-Of course, like any person with common sense, he remembered that one should never lock himself in a closet.
63-Emphasizes the subtlest of human characteristics, the horror of the obvious and its tendency to neglect it.
"I do not expect to find old heads on young shoulders.
65. Of all vices, only cowardice is purely painful: horrible to anticipate, horrible to feel, horrible to remember; Leisure has its pleasures.
66. Hate is often the compensation by which a frightened man recovers from the sufferings of fear. The more afraid you are, the more you will hate. And hatred is also an antidote to shame.
67. We shall not consider any experience that we may have, whatever it may be, if we maintain beforehand a philosophy which excludes the supernatural.
68. Education without values, however useful we may seem, only makes men a smarter demon.
If the whole universe does not make sense, we should never have discovered that it does not make sense. Just as, if there was no light in the universe and therefore there were no creatures with eyes, we should never have noticed the darkness. The darkness would be meaningless.
70. A man can not diminish the glory of God by refusing to worship him more than a lunatic can not extinguish the sun by scribbling the word"darkness"on the walls of his cell.
71. Can a mortal ask a question of God that is incontestable? Yes you can, just reason enough that, all the questions without meaning, are incontestable.
72. Humans are amphibians: half spirit, half animal. As spirits, they belong to the eternal world, but like animals, they inhabit in time.
73- Do not use very large words always, do not say"infinitely"when you really mean"a lot". Otherwise you will be left without the right words when you want to refer to something really"infinite".
74. God can not give us peace and happiness without him, there is simply no such thing.
75. Let us pray that the human race will never leave the earth to spread its innocuousness for the rest of the universe.
There are two kinds of people, those who tell God to"do your will"and those to whom God says"okay, well, do it your way"
Writing is like"lust,"or"scratching when it bites you." Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it arrives, I, for my part, must take it out at once.
78- Always try to use the language in such a way that it is clear what you want to say and, whatever you say, can not be interpreted in any other way.
79. Christianity, if false, is simply irrelevant. If it is authentic, it is of vital importance. It's the only thing that can not be half-hearted.
Long before the story began, we men turned away from women and did many things together. They were good times.