C.S. Lewis — "The only safe rule is to be sure that you are leading a life that would be worth…"

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

"We read to know we're not alone."

"The finest moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… but rather the times when we are stretched to our limits."

"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imag…"

"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's re…"