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Happy Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
- When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
- Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make…
- I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those…
- Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not…
- I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to…
- And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
- Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
- God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly…
- It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.
- As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he…
- When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you…
- The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs;…
- The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens…
- The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the…
More Happy Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is. — Fred Armisen
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine