Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Quote by C S Lewis

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact...

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact...

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour,...

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour,...

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be...

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original:...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original:...

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done...

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles...

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles...

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate...

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate...

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to...

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to...

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are...

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are...

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the...

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an...

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an...

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not...

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not...

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith...

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith...

What we call Mans power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by...

What we call Mans power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by...