--- title: "1 Optimistic View Quotes By CS Lewis" description: "1 Optimistic View quotes by CS Lewis. Plus more from CS Lewis and more Optimistic View sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb0/cs-lewis-10887_happiness_if-you-think-of-this-world-as-a-place-in_2660513.jpg" --- > [If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/if-you-think-of-this-world-as-a-place-intended-simply-for-our/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb0/cs-lewis-10887_happiness_if-you-think-of-this-world-as-a-place-in_2660513.jpg) ## More by CS Lewis > [For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/for-whatever-else-the-religious-life-may-be-it-is-the-fountain-of/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [“Truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is".”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/truth-is-always-about-something-but-reality-is-that-about-which-truth/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/most-people-if-they-had-really-learned-to-look-into-their-own-hearts/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/love-anything-and-your-heart-will-be-wrung-and-possibly-broken-if-you/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to the knacker's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/the-vocabulary-of-flattery-and-insult-is-continually-enlarged-at-the/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/when-once-a-man-is-launched-on-such-an-adventure-as-this-he-must-bid/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/to-love-at-all-is-to-be-vulnerable-love-anything-and-your-heart-will/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us into unity, by persecution even and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/i-could-well-believe-that-it-is-god-s-intention-since-we-have-refused/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/when-you-meet-anything-that-s-going-to-be-human-and-isn-t-yet-or-used/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/you-are-never-too-old-to-set-another-goal-or-to-dream-another-dream/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/appreciative-love-gazes-and-holds-its-breath-and-is-silent-rejoices/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [“if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/if-you-live-you-may-yet-have-good-fortune-but-all-the-dead-are-dead/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/if-i-ve-got-correct-goals-and-if-i-keep-pursuing-them-the-best-way-i/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [“The stars never lie, but Men and Beasts do.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/the-stars-never-lie-but-men-and-beasts-do/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) > [“There is a kind of happiness and wonder the makes you serious.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/there-is-a-kind-of-happiness-and-wonder-the-makes-you-serious/) [CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/optimistic-view/cs-lewis/#itemlist", "name": "1 Optimistic View Quotes By CS Lewis", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad. 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