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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.

C. S. Lewis

Progress

Man

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

C. S. Lewis

Marriage

Sexes

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."

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis

God

Teachers

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C. S. Lewis

Hell

Road

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C. S. Lewis

Tea

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

C. S. Lewis

Soul

Body

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C. S. Lewis

Future