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#1

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26984 likes

#2

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18125 likes

#3

“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

13379 likes

#4

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world

12725 likes

#5

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship, inspirational

10660 likes

#6

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

7324 likes

#7

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

3827 likes

#8

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, old-books, reading

3258 likes

#9

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

tags: hell, love, safe

3200 likes

#10

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

2984 likes

#11

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: hurt, lewis, misery, sad, truth

3442 likes

#12

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: love-friendship

2564 likes

#13

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis

1924 likes

#14

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

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#15

“That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

1394 likes

#17

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: humility

1782 likes

#18

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: belief, life-and-death, truth

1142 likes

#19

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: happiness, pain

996 likes

#20

“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: c-s-lewis

776 likes

#21

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus

tags: philosophy-of-life

762 likes

#22

“Make your choice, adventurous Stranger,
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

775 likes

#23

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

tags: inspirational

647 likes

#24

“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

tags: humor

748 likes

#25

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
― C.S. Lewis

775 likes

#26

“Do not dare not to dare.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

tags: inspirational

611 likes

#27

“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: change, life-lessons, love, pain

941 likes

#28

“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
― C.S. Lewis

465 likes

#29

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: life, meaning, universe

530 likes

#30

“To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

tags: narnia

472 likes

#31

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: conceit, ego, self-worth

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