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wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. C. S. Lewis
wisdom holy-places burning
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.' C. S. Lewis
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say. C. S. Lewis
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. C. S. Lewis
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell. C. S. Lewis
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted. C. S. Lewis
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't. C. S. Lewis
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? C. S. Lewis
reading tubes
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube Bill Sienkiewicz
reading eye thinking
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. C. S. Lewis
reading important acquire
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. C. S. Lewis
reading two eating
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. C. S. Lewis
reading knows not-alone
We read to know we are not alone. C. S. Lewis
reading eye night
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do. C. S. Lewis
reading character scripts
Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond. Cathy Moriarty
reading mean idols
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean. Carrie Underwood
reading satisfaction given
Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else. Bill Blass
solitude privilege prize
I prize the privilege of being alone. Carl Rogers
solitude soul body
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! William Wilberforce
solitude peculiar thrones
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. Charles Phillips
solitude looks elbows
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there. Elizabeth Bowen
solitude walks ifs
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it. Elfriede Jelinek
solitude betray
And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you Brandon Sanderson
solitude company conditions
Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company. Eleanor Catton
solitude depth madness
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. Edward Abbey
solitude listening getting-older
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. Alberto Giacometti