C. S. Lewis Quotes

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.'

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

I felt a lot of love through playing at BYU.

My gratitude is great to my family and friends for accepting me as the person who they now know me to be and for letting me show them the possibilities of a life well lived.

I actually really love people.

I could never say that I regret being given the gift of experience and love.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.

Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.

If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.

There is one relationship I was in that I learned a lot from. I learned a lot from the situation about myself and about relationships and about love, about how to relate to people, about forgiveness and the stuff that comes with being in a relationship.

The wise are wise only because they love.

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

Now that I'm a father of three kids, suddenly the whole world seems different. I don't want to take anything for granted. If you gaze on something and you appreciate it, you become a part of that circle. That seemed to me to be the only relevance I could understand. The space, the time and the vastness of it all was overwhelming. I needed to understand it or I just was lost.

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.