"There is a kind of happiness and..." - Quote by C S Lewis
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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“The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.”
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
“I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.”
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“I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.”
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“Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic”
“There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.”
“Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.”