S.G. Willoughby > S.G.'s Quotes

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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

“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

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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

“You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“...love is never stationary.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Simply put: love does.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.

"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"

"All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain.

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"Good morning!" he said at last. "We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water." By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I wonder if people will ever say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring." And they'll say, "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?" "Yes, m'boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset.
"Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Each of us, right here, right now—we are the resistance.”
― Jaye L. Knight, Resistance

“What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.”
― Jaye L. Knight, Samara's Peril

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is rather not letting your fear control your actions”
― Brett Harris, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

“all effort—even failed effort—produces muscle.”
― Alex Harris, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

“What is possible when a generation stops assuming that someone else will take care of the brokenness in the world - or that someone else will capitalize on current opportunities - and realizes that they are called to take action?”
― Alex Harris, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

“The teen years are not a vacation from responsibility,” we had told the columnist. “They are the training ground of future leaders who dare to be responsible”
― Alex Harris, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

“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

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada

“Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.”
― Sarah Mally, Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― 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

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

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves