C. S. Lewis Quotes
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
Imre Kertesz
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
Gale Gordon
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
Aaron Neville
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
Rahm Emanuel
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
Kate Middleton
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Sometimes me think, 'What is friend?' Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’
Patrick Henry
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I always look at a girls shoes. And if they’re wearing heels, i wonder how she would look if she was just wearing those.
Sebastian Stan
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All that a pacifist can undertake-but it is a very great deal-is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
Vera Brittain
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis