

“For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity

“The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity

“The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity

“Había aprendido a pensar en frío, para que los recuerdos ineludibles no le lastimaran ningún sentimiento.”
― Cien años de soledad
― Cien años de soledad

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