C. S. Lewis Quotes
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
Quotes to Explore
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
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We all know that a call-up to the Springboks (South Africa national team) is a major achievement and the rewards, especially financial, are huge.
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
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This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.
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When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.
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When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
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Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
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The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
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No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
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One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
