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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: dr-seuss, goodbye
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    C.S. Lewis
    “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, forgiveness, god
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    C.S. Lewis
    “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    A.A. Milne
    “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: faith, unfathomable
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly.

    'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
    tags: manners
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: christianity
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    C.S. Lewis
    “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: character-development, education, ethics
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
    tags: stupid
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    C.S. Lewis
    “She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: humor, women, zealousness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
    ― C.S. Lewis; Inspirational Christian Library
    tags: inspirational
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    C.S. Lewis
    “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
    tags: free-will, hell
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: aspiration, pride, self-improvement
    1805 likes



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