The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

Am I lost or just less found?

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.