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Living Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but…
- He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly…
- Imagine yourself as a living house.
- Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on…
- There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.
- I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I…
- No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live…
- I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
- Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the…
- Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...
- We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw…
- 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…
- To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov