Brandon

“The torture allotted to the Danaids in the classical underworld, that of attempting to fill sieves with water, is the symbol not of one vice, but of all vices. It is the very mark of a perverse desire that it seeks what is not to be had.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Inner Ring

“There is no greater misery than false joys.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“Ideal circumstance is the Paradise of Fools.”
― Alexander B. Grosart Joshuah Sylvester, The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester. Two Volumes

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity