C. S. Lewis Quote Explained: Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

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If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?

- C. S. Lewis

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Prayer
Silly

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We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

- C. S. Lewis

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· Ireland

Eye
Ordinary

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One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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…if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

- C. S. Lewis

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· Ireland

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A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

Resistance

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Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

…if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Explain

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

Most people aren’t cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.

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