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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: reality-human-nature-temptation
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    C.S. Lewis
    “For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: eternity, present, time
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    C.S. Lewis
    “When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: eternity, future, past, present
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: human-nature, temptation
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: inspirational
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: courage
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden. ”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: christianity, inspirational, religious
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dark, stars
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: destiny, self-determination
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The earth laughs in flowers.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: flowers, laughter
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: determination, fate
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, live-in-the-moment, optimism, wonder
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
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