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“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We are what we believe we are!”
― C.S. Lewis

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931-1949

“often pointed out that bright mornings brought on wet afternoons, and that you can't expect good times to last.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The kind of people we are is more important than what we can do to improve the world; indeed being the kind of people we should and can be is the best, and sometimes the only way to improve the world.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle