“Better Things Lie Ahead” – Quote by C. S. Lewis
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
C. S. Lewis
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Erich Fromm on Possessions, Wealth and Giving
“The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.”
Erich Fromm
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven” – C. S. Lewis
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”
C. S. Lewis
Anxieties Are Not Sins – Quote by C. S. Lewis
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
C. S. Lewis
Ayn Rand Quote on Individualism and Self-Determination
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Ayn Rand
C. S. Lewis on Humility, Gratitude and True Greatness
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
C. S. Lewis
“Giving Is the Highest Expression of Potency” – Erich Fromm
“Giving is the highest expression of potency.”
Erich Fromm
Suffering and Consciousness – C. S. Lewis on the Shadow of Misery
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis on Solemnity and Appropriate Behavior
“Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.”
C. S. Lewis
“Man is the only animal that can be bored” – Erich Fromm
“Man is the only animal that can be bored.”
Erich Fromm