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

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

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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 instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

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

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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 thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

~ C.S. Lewis, Christian English Author and Professor

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