“It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is a Christian duty, as you know, for every-one to be as happy as he can.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“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… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also—I must put… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Human beings, after all, have some sense; they see that you cannot have any real safety or happiness except in a society… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“As the uneasiness and reluctance to face it cut him off more and more from all real happiness, and as habit renders… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
