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C.S. Lewis {25 Votes}

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

"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."

"Aim at heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither."

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking about yourself less."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

"We are what we believe we are."

'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.' (Courtesy of SapphireSeptember - thanks!)