A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I donโt think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while weโre doing it, I think weโre meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birdsโ song and the frosty sunrise.
C. S. LewisDo not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
C. S. LewisGood and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
C. S. Lewis