Posts Tagged ‘happiness’

C.S. Lewis on happiness

Posted: August 17, 2011 in Inspiration
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“There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made. Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by kind of infection. If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has made them…they are great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not, you will remain dry. Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die?” – C.S. Lewis

Below is a fascinating 10 minute CNN interview with David Brooks and Fareed Zakaria about the Social Animal and what really makes people successful.  Well worth the watch!