A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

by C.S. Lewis

again, ‘She’s the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.’

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

(We must get over wanting to be needed: in some goodish people, specially women, that is the hardest of all temptations to resist.)

Sometimes our pride also hinders our charity; we are tempted to spend more than we ought on the showy forms of generosity (tipping, hospitality) and less than we ought on those who really need our help.

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable.