C. S. Lewis Quotes

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

I am not going to play basketball because I have to play. I am going to play for fun.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Someone who takes the time to understand their relationship with source, who actively seeks alignment with their broader perspective, who deliberately seeks and finds alignment with who-they-really -are, is more charismatic, more attractive, more effective, and more powerful than a group of millions who have not achieved this alignment.

Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow.

Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this has been done. This is the greatest crime that parents have always committed against children. They go on forcing the child.

Trends don't mean anything to me. If I like something, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't do it, and I wouldn't care if everybody in the country mocked me.

I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

There is a difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse-when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped.