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Rest Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
- Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable…
- We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if…
- Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life…
- Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each…
- Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes…
- Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet…
- It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
- And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril…
- Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition…
- Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at…
- You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.
- The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning…
- Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.
More Rest Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I've committed to surfing the rest of my life. — Lance Armstrong
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon