Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.