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e46635b	A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.			Madeleine L'Engle
c4275c9	Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit		life	Madeleine L'Engle
bf03b66	We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.			Madeleine L'Engle
9f47a0a	Believing takes practice.			Madeleine L'Engle
dfc746d	Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.			Madeleine L'Engle
8f47725	Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.			Madeleine L'Engle
dd11973	I do not know everything; still many things I understand.			Madeleine L'Engle
2cd2009	The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.			Madeleine L'Engle
0ebf9a5	Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.			Madeleine L'Engle
a54de0a	Like and equal are not the same thing at all.			Madeleine L'Engle
8f749d1	People are more than just the way they look.		people	Madeleine L'Engle
961d6a1	At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the ..		young-adult speculative-fiction	Madeleine L'Engle
85c5d02	I love, therefore I am vulnerable.			Madeleine L'Engle
48f9b31	In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.		work god weakness humility	Madeleine L'Engle
1934af3	Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.		work	Madeleine L'Engle
f731c15	If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.			Madeleine L'Engle
2fd63be	A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.			Madeleine L'Engle
e682d91	But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.			Madeleine L'Engle
88f1898	Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.			Madeleine L'Engle
e09a967	It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.			Madeleine L'Engle
892275e	We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.		life facts-of-life walking-on-water quotes	Madeleine L'Engle
27ad477	Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?" --		sarcasm	Madeleine L'Engle
abe9868	Only a fool is not afraid.			Madeleine L'Engle
d78514a	I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.			Madeleine L'Engle
ac805f9	It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.			Madeleine L'Engle
089ad31	They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?"			Madeleine L'Engle
e1196a4	We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast			Madeleine L'Engle
2e69565	Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.		reason	Madeleine L'Engle
6d6a405	Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.			Madeleine L'Engle
a2cbc84	Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.			Madeleine L'Engle
9522159	I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.			Madeleine L'Engle
cb29062	Experiment is the mother of knowledge.			Madeleine L'Engle
682c248	A book, too, can be a star, "explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly," a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."			Madeleine L'Engle
171026c	Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take...If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that l..		marriage love	Madeleine L'Engle
fde627d	The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show h..			Madeleine L'Engle
e573535	Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have."		near-sighted glasses eyes	Madeleine L'Engle
f3a60fd	Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.		growing stories	Madeleine L'Engle
99e14c9	A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.			Madeleine L'Engle
0d51ddb	It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.			Madeleine L'Engle
20546dd	Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.			Madeleine L'Engle
1db24f0	Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?			Madeleine L'Engle
960dfd0	We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. O..			Madeleine L'Engle
755e967	We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.			Madeleine L'Engle
fc33ada	Wild nights are my glory!		storms	Madeleine L'Engle

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