"Joy is never in our power and..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.”

“If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”

“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.”

“Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.”

“The only joy in this hard life is serving others.”

“The trouble is small, the fun is great.[Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]”

“If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.”

“Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.”

“Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.”