Happiness Quotes by C.S. Lewis

19 Happiness quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis shares nineteen succinct thoughts that tie happiness to faith, imagination, and moral purpose. The snippets read like a brief sermon for the soul, offering a calm, reflective pause in a busy day.

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“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”

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“It is a Christian duty, as you know, for every-one to be as happy as he can.”

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“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.”

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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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“For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...”

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“It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.”

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“When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also—I must put…

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“Human beings, after all, have some sense; they see that you cannot have any real safety or happiness except in a society…

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“Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that…

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“Let the thrill go—let it die away—go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow—and you…

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“But whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its…

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“But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes…

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“Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly…

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“Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may…

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“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy,…

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“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made…

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“As the uneasiness and reluctance to face it cut him off more and more from all real happiness, and as habit renders…

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“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory.…

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“One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness…

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“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a…

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“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es…

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“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could…

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“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.…

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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

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“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are…

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