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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”
― May Sarton

“There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)”
― D. J. MacHale, The Quillan Games

“Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just like people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”
― Jenkin Lloyd Jones

“Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
― Robert Frost

“If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
― Walt Disney

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”
― Walt Disney

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained”
― Walt Disney

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
― Walt Disney Company

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge”
― Joseph Smith Jr.

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”
― Shannon Hale

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“don't do things that kill you.”
― John Bytheway, What Are You Carrying in Your Backpack?

“If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.”
― John Bytheway, How to Be Totally Miserable: A Self-Hinder Book

“Say no to asphalt!”
― John Bytheway

“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”
― Stephen Colbert

“I never said most of the things I said.”
― Yogi Berra

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde