"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
— C.S. Lewis

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. "
— Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience And Other Essays the Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau)

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened."
— C.S. Lewis (The Great Divorce)