"You weren't a decent man and you..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.”

“The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.”

“I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.”

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

“All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

“The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.”

“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.”

“This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.”

“Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.”