"How difficult it is to avoid having..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.”

“The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.”

“Die before you die, there is no chance after.”

“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”

“When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.”

“The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.”

“If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.”

“It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.”

“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”