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- I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my…
- I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
- The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no…
- She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.
- A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys…
- The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all…
- Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish…
- [S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that…
- I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they…
- You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up…
- I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been…
- When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I…
- Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said…
- Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name,…
- Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems…
- In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up…
- Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude…
- No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all…
- No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.…
- Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection
- When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt…
- I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if…
- For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong