“You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Pilgrim's Regress
“Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more than all the land.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Pilgrim's Regress
“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Pilgrim's Regress
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Pilgrim's Regress
“There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Pilgrim's Regress
“Hypothesis, my dear young friend, establishes itself by a cumulative process: or, to use popular language, if you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. After”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Pilgrim's Regress
“[John]: 'But I must think it is one or the other.'
[Reason]: 'By my father's soul, you must not - until you have some evidence. Can you not remain in doubt?'
[John]: 'I don't know that I have ever tried.'
[Reason]: 'You must learn to, if you are to come far with me. It is not hard to do it. In Eschropolis, indeed, it is impossible, for the people who live there have to give an opinion once a week or once a day, or else Mr. Mammon would soon cut off their food. But out here in the country you can walk all day and all the next day with an unanswered question in your head: you need never speak until you have made up your mind.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Pilgrim's Regress
“-You will find your Island here.
-But how can it be here in the middle of the city?
-It needs no place. It is everywhere and nowhere. It refuses entry to none who asks. It is an Island of the Soul.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Pilgrim's Regress
C.S. Lewis
Born place: in Belfast, Ireland
Born date November 29, 1898
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“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.”
― Ken Kesey, quote from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from The Bell Jar
“I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from Outlander
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
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