C. S. Lewis Quotes about Happiness

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Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

C. S. Lewis

Life, Happiness, Happy

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Happiness, Religious

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Mother, Fun

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Joy, Waste

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Happy, Uplifting

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Mean, Men

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Strong, Men

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Giving Up, Fall

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

C. S. Lewis

Love, Happiness, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Thinking, Awkward

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Brother, Real

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

C. S. Lewis Quotes about Happiness

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