Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn you will find yourself disliking him less.

— C. S. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

— C. S. Lewis

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

— C. S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

— C. S. Lewis

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

— C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

— C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

— C. S. Lewis

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

— C. S. Lewis

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

— C. S. Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

— C. S. Lewis