C. S. Lewis Quotes

'Ah, Psyche,' I said, 'have I made you so little happy as that?'

C. S. Lewis

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Home
  • Happy
  • You

• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Experience
  • Happy

• A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Happy
  • Language
  • Body

• If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Happy
  • Busy
  • Be Happy

• Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Black

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Happy
  • Be Happy
  • Palestinian

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Happy
  • Movies
  • Taught

• The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • True
  • Happy
  • Fact

• No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Single

• The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • People
  • Together
  • Happy

• Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Sometimes
  • Find
  • Often

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• Very few countries grow at high rate if inflation is high and volatile. I think, in a way, we are doing our bit to support a higher growth rate, but on a durable basis.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Thinking
  • Support
  • Growth

• I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• 'Ah, Psyche,' I said, 'have I made you so little happy as that?'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happy