"Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal."

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Source : "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

C. S. Lewis

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Boys Quotes

“You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.”
“Happiness is a long walk with a putter.”
“Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.”
“A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.”
“Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.”
“No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.”
“Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.”
“What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody.”

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