"It is wonderful what you can do..." - Quote by C S Lewis
It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.
More by C S Lewis
“If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?”
“The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.”
“Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.”
More on Resilience
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.”
“What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.”
“I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a kingI've been up and down and over and out and I know one thingEach time I find myself flat on my faceI pick myself up and get back in the race”
More on Necessity
“I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.”
“Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.”
“Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.”