"Morality or duty never yet made a..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
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“A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.”
“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.”
“The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.”
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“We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.”
“Happiness is health and a short memory!”
“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”