C. S. Lewis Quotes

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

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• If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.

  

  Hailey Bieber
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• People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.

  

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• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

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• In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

  

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• I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

  

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• I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

  

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• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

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• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  

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• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  

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• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

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• When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

  

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• I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

  

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• It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

  

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• Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

  

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• The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.

  

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• My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.

  

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• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

  

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• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  

  Oren Peli
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• I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.

  

  Brian Stableford
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• The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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