"Joy bursts in our lives when we..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
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“The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible”
“Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!”
“Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.”
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“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”
“To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.”
“There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.”
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“I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.”
“The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.”
“Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body”