Narnia is the reason I know C.S Lewis.
Its also the reason I understood sometimes there are serious behaviour/personality problems in people we care deeply about.We cannot take responsibility for it,only they can.We can be supportive but shouldn’t let ourselves be victimized.Forgiveness is a choice for less stress in our lives,but forgetting is suicidal.Preaching doesn’t help but praying and timely help might.Eitherway it’s a choice and the choice is theirs not ours.
Sharing a few on my absolute favorite C.S Lewis quotes .
“I can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
It’s not about the large tea for me but the really good one, with a perfect balance of flavours and sweetness.The temperature too needs to be just right.The book needs to be written to draw me in.Length is dependent on how long it can hold my attention .How good a book it is depends on how long I remember it fondly.
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
That’s absolutely true .We have a similar saying -aim for the sky ,you might just get stuck on the top of the tree!
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
The eternal nature of soul/aura/ether is the realson why the balance of matter and energy in this world remains constant .No energy is ever lost and the body is just the temporary dressing/placeholder/external shell. The body has a warranty period…the soul lives on.
“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.”
I read somewhere that children are not born with an intrinsic sense of right/wrong …morality.Their parents and peer group have a big role to play.Bullies are often bullied sometime in their lives.The only way we can teach kids about courage is walking the talk and through stories about brave women and men.
“We are what we believe we are.”
No truer words have ever been spoken.Positive self talk is one of the toughest battles we must fight everyday.Exercising daily is my favorite way to fight the flab and the nay sayer in me.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
Happened with my best friend in school.We loved reading books and there was no looking back.Many a casual friendship grew stronger because of shared interest in books.Book lovers are not a lost species…just exceedingly rare nowadays.
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”
We love eating together too .It’s a way to bond like no other.On busy days too we try to sit down and have breakfast together.For holidays and festival days bonding over food at our home in Kolkata with family is a wonderful way to keep making memories!
“Forgiveness does not mean excusing.”
Absolutely. Bad behaviour is a bad choice and in no way should be encouraged.Excuses about it will end up with that wrong behaviour being repeated.
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
Our life is indeed a story being written ,one day at a time .How we want to be remembered needs a deep thought.But even more than that ,when you look at the mirror you must be able to smile and say “good job”.
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”
I wrote about India’s Green hero who has regrown forest and is a true forest creator of modern times.Spending time in nature changed my life.
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.“
That may sound regressive and weird.But home is truly where the Heart is.Someone needs to care enough, to have food on the table and a cozy blanket put in just the right place for you to curl up and sleep.Its not easy ,but its the reason the Indian family system works.Society needs to think out of the box to avoid stigmatizing home-making!Just staying at home doesn’t Mae someone a homemaker. Doing it with Creativity and love and feeling the appreciation makes the home maker find joy .
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
I have reached just that age and I am now re-reading old favorites.
We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
A greater truth about the “company you keep”,has never been spoken.How people behave has a lot to do with their genes but a significant amount of environmental influence cannot be ignored.
“All get what they want; they do not always like it.”
That my dear friend is what life is about.So be careful what you wish for ,because you never know when a wishing air is blowing and your wish comes true!
You can read my favourite quotes from Stephen Kings book “On Writing here.
I am participating in Blogchatter A2Z 2025 and also the April Ultimate blog challenge and you can find all the April posts here. This is a L post.