C. S. Lewis Quotes

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
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Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
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I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
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The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals.' I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits.
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The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
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I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily