Aidan Haskell

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

“Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.”
― Douglas Wilson

“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly,
and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.”
― G.K. Chesterton