"Do not waste time bothering whether you..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.”

“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.”

“When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”

“There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.”

“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”

“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”

“Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.”

“The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.”

“The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.”