C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

C. S. Lewis

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• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

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• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

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• I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

  

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• Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

  

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• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder