C. S. Lewis Quotes

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

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• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

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• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

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• I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.

  

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• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

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• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

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• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

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• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  

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• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

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• What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.

  

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• The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

  

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• The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.

  

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• The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation.

  

  Meir Soloveichik
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• The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

  

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• The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Real
  • Small