The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsa
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
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.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Grief feels so strange. It comes in waves, sometimes gentle, sometimes crashing over you. And in between, there is a kind of numb feeling, where you just wait for the next wave.
You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.
Laughter is the best medicine against a stiff neck, especially if the stiff neck is caused by your own illusions.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and you'll see there's a chance it will be taken from you.
Friendship is born in that moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
Friendship... is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
Friendship... is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather, it gives value to survival.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather, it gives value to survival. Also, it's a great excuse for bad jokes.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
Người bạn thực sự không phải là người giúp bạn vượt qua khó khăn, mà là người chia sẻ niềm vui và hạnh phúc.
Tình bạn sinh ra tại khoảnh khắc khi một người nói với người kia, 'Gì! Cậu cũng vậy sao? Tôi tưởng chỉ mình tôi thế này mà'.
