Chase Clift

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton