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Quotes by C.S. Lewis

British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. Author of The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Courage

Courage, dear heart.

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Friendship

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

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Joy

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

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Education

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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Love

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

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Change

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

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Education

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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Friendship

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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Suffering

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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Hope

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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Self-Perception

We are what we believe we are.

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Success

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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Adversity

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

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Time

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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Love

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.

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Inspiration

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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