C. S. Lewis Quotes

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

You reach a certain age, and you're so proud that you're walking and breathing and loving and working and all of that at 90.

Economic resources are not all that matter in people's lives.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

One must live well to know what living is.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

Come on 'long prosperous life!'

The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.