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Clive Lewis : I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Clive Lewis quote- I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy....

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Christian Nevell Bovee : " Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Joshua Loth Liebman : " The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Eileen Stukane : " For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Euripides : " Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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F Scott Fitzgerald : " Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Roland Barthes : " Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Yukio Mishima : " According to Eshin's "Essentials of Salvation," the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Gilbert K Chesterton : " The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Helen Keller : " Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Nathaniel Hawthorne : " Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past. " # Joy # Mind # Pleasure

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Clive Lewis: " Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one." # Friends and Friendship

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Clive Lewis: " Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." # Teachers and Teaching

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Clive Lewis: " Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality." # Courage # Reality # Virtue

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Clive Lewis: " When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place." # Love

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Clive Lewis: " Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature." # Miracles # Law and Lawyers # Nature

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Clive Lewis: " Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods." # Faith # Reason # Change

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Clive Lewis: " The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." # Time and Time Management # Twentieth Century # Work

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Clive Lewis: " Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." # Happiness

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Clive Lewis: " Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither." # Heaven # Freedom # Power

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Clive Lewis: " And now, by some transition, which he did not notice, it seemed that what had begun as speech was turned into sight, or into something that can be remembered only as if it were seeing. He thought he saw the Great Dance. It seemed to be woven out of the intertwining undulation of many cords or bands of light, leaping over and under one another and mutually embraced in arabesques and flower-like subtleties. Each figure as he looked at it became the master-figure or focus of the whole spectacle, by means of which his eye disentangled all else and brought it into unity--only to be itself entangled when he looked to what he had taken for mere marginal decorations and found that there also the same hegemony was claimed, and the claim made good, yet the former pattern thereby disposed but finding in its new subordination a significance greater than that which it had abdicated. He could see also ( but the word "seeing" is now plainly inadequate)wherever the ribbons or serpents of light intersected minute corpuscles of momentary brightness: and he knew somehow that these particles were the secular generalities of which history tells--people, institutions, climates of opinion, civilizations, arts, sciences and the like--ephemeral coruscations that piped their short song and vanished. The ribbons or cords themselves, in which millions of corpuscles lived and died, were the things of some different kind. At first he could not say what. But he knew in the end that most of them were individual entities. If so, the time in which the Great Dance proceeds is very unlike time as we know it. Some of the thinner more delicate cords were the beings that we call short lived: flowers and insects, a fruit or a storm of rain, and once (he thought) a wave of the sea. Others were such things we think lasting: crystals, rivers, mountains, or even stars. Far above these in girth and luminosity and flashing with colours form beyond our spectrum were the lines of personal beings, yet as different from one another in splendour as all of them from the previous class. But not all the cords were individuals: some of them were universal truths or universal qualities. It did not surprise him then to find that these and the persons were both cords and both stood together as against the mere atoms of generality which lived and died in the clashing of their streams: But afterwards, when he came back to earth, he wondered. And by now the thing must have passed together out of the region of sight as we understand it. For he says that the whole figure of there enamored and inter –inanimate circling was suddenly revealed as the mere superficies of a far vaster pattern in four dimensions, and that figure as the boundary of yet others in other worlds: till suddenly as the movement grew yet swifter, the interweaving yet more ecstatic, the relevance of all to all yet more intense, as dimension was added to dimension and tat part of him which could reason and remember was dropped further and further behind that part of him which saw, even then, at the very zenith of complexity, complexity was eaten up and faded, as a thin white cloud fades into the hard blue burning of sky, and all simplicity beyond all comprehension, ancient and young as spring, illimitable, pellucid, drew him with cords of infinite desire into it’s own stillness. He went up into such a quietness, a privacy, and a freshness that at the very moment when he stood farthest from our ordinary mode of being he had the sense of striping off encumbrances and awaking from a trance, and coming to himself. With a gesture of relaxation he looked about him…" # Death and Dying # Love # Life and Living

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