“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.” – C.S. Lewis

“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.”

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.” – C.S. Lewis

“The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.”

“If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?”

“Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.

What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all . . .

Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink, Was caught up into love, and taught the whole Of life in a new rhythm.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”