You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Success
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Happiness
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship
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.
Education
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.
Wisdom
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Wisdom
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Success
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Life
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Wisdom
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Happiness
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.
Wisdom
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Education
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Truth
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.
Wisdom
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Education
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.
Wisdom
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Courage
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Wisdom
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.
Life
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Hope
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
Life
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
Life
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Life
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Wisdom
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