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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...more

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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have re...more

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

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One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many b...more

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If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world...more

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty m...more

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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.

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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vic...more