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| 3e9b8cf | To love somebody is not just a strong feeling--it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision? | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| eaf5ca7 | was so imbued with the spirit of his culture that he could not go beyond certain limits which were set by it. These very limits became limitations for his understanding even of the sick individual; they handicapped his understanding of the normal individual and of the irrational phenomena operating in social life. | sigmund-freud society | Erich Fromm | |
| 8d31c65 | Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of his individual existence by becoming part of somebody or something bigger than himself, and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted. | power self submission | Erich Fromm | |
| 9b56ade | Durante a rapida estacao em que a mulher permanece em flor, os caracteres da sua beleza servem admiravelmente bem a dissimulacao a qual a sua fraqueza natural e as leis sociais a condenam. Sob o rico colorido do seu vicoso rosto, sob o fogo dos seus olhos, sob a fina textura das suas feicoes tao delicadas, com tantas linhas curvas ou retas, mas puras e perfeitamente determinadas, todas as suas comocoes podem permanecer secretas: o rubor ent.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 276d1a1 | he seemed to be thinking at him. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 0ade0cc | If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody, and you're stuck with it. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9611fee | We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know. | zeal zealous | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 92b4431 | But you're good at basketball and things," Meg protested. "You're good in school. Everybody likes you." "For all the most unimportant reasons," Calvin said. "There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ac85e9e | Perhaps one of the most compelling and moving descriptions of that internal battle comes near the end of the book, when Mrs Whatsit tells the children that 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. What you say is completely up to you." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1d2adc4 | I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religious order. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr. Melcher's excitement in leading young people into an expanding imagination. Because of the very nature of the world as it is today our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into c.. | imagination newbery-award-acceptance-speech reading | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 24eeab6 | That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. --MADELEINE L'ENGLE, The Arm of the Starfish | Christina Baker Kline | ||
| 01f1f51 | Le caeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 19b4b75 | Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The tendency of the churches to be relevant and more-secular-than-thou does not answer our need for the transcendent. As George Tyrrell wrote about a hundred years ago, "If a [man's] craving for the mysterious, the wonderful, the supernatural, be not fed on true religion, it will feed itself on the g.. | mystery religion | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| dcb2cec | Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 278906a | Again Mrs Which's voice reverberated through the cave. "Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddoo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1848836 | If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 441c1ad | Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master puppeteer. We agree sadly that it is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all. | suffering | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 9bc9759 | Majah, minah, and mediocah. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 608208d | It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. It stops us from taking anything for granted. It has also taught me about living in the immediate moment. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| dfe2fa7 | Time is inextricably tangled up with place, and can be measured only against place. Time has meaning only in relation to its position in space, the movement of a planet about a sun, of a night through stars. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4f17536 | And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d32750f | I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!" | evil | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| c498b65 | Devochka reshila, chto stoit svarit' sebe goriachego kakao. Eto nemnogo priobodrit ee, i dazhe esli kryshu sorvet vetrom, Meg ne uneset vmeste s neiu. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ec01095 | Bylo by takzhe neplokho, esli by u Meg ispravilsia pocherk, -- dobavila missis Murri. -- Ia ego koe-kak razbiraiu i to s bol'shim trudom, no vriad li eto udaetsia ee uchiteliam -- oni prosto ne khotiat tratit' na eto svoe vremia. Sobiraius' podarit' ei na Rozhdestvo pishushchuiu mashinku. Eto znachitel'no uprostit vsem zhizn'. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 5c8829b | Vsem izvestno, chto v nashem poselke samyi moshchnyi Tsentral'nyi Myslitel'nyi Tsentr na planete! My vypuskaem produktsiiu tol'ko samogo vysshego kachestva! Nashi fabriki rabotaiut v kruglosutochnom rezhime, i proizvodstvennye linii nikogda ne ostanavlivaiutsia! A krome togo, u nas est' piat' poetov, tri khudozhnika i shest' skul'ptorov -- i vse ideal'no nastroeny! | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 894e250 | This seemed an obvious sign from heaven. I should stop trying to write...So the rejection on the fortieth birthday seemed an unmistakable command: Stop this foolishness and learn to make cherry pie. I covered up the typewriter in a great gesture of renunciation. Then I walked around and around the room, bawling my head off. I was totally, unutterably miserable. Suddenly I stopped, because I realized what my subconscious mind was doing while.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d5304c0 | We look not at the things which are what you could call seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8416f33 | In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 5e6dd1f | Remember, he hasn't much imagination. Or, rather, it's been frozen for a long while and hasn't had time to thaw. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4829f39 | Even though she was used to Mrs. Whatsit's odd getup (and the very oddness of it was what made her seem so comforting), she realized with a fresh shock that it was not Mrs. Whatsit herself that she was seeing at all. The complete, the true Mrs. Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs. Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it w.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4cd5705 | Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life familiar to the Jews of his day. Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos. | chaos names stories | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| bb7a0d7 | The writing of a book may be a solitary business, it is done alone. The writer sits down with paper and pen, or typewriter, and, withdrawn from the world, tries to set down the story that is crying to be written. We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. No matter how fantastic a story line may be, it still comes out of our response to what is happening to us and to the world in which we live. | writing | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 2271ab5 | Below them the town was laid out in harsh angular patterns. The houses in the outskirts were all exactly alike, small square boxes painted gray. Each had a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, with a straight line of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the door. Meg had a feeling that if she could count the flowers there would be exactly the same number for each house. In front of all the houses children were playing. Some were ski.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2482995 | mother carefully turned over four slices of French toast, then said in a steady voice, "No, Meg. Don't hope it was a dream. 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 | ||
| 821e0f3 | Why, my Lord, did you have to bring Me down from the safety of my hill Into the danger of your will?" (David p. 34)" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3f46ba1 | Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God. | meaning myth | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 2850520 | Well, the fifth dimension's a tesseract. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f8be83d | Fore Word Poetry and prayer are synonymous in my life, and because both are a gift, which I accept with joy and sometimes pain, I seldom know whether I have served the gift well or ill. But perhaps that doesn't really matter; the important thing is to be willing - to want to serve the gift whenever it comes, either as verse or prayer... My heart's climate is not constant; I doubt if anyone's is. My inner weather shifts with the days. But mu.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3d41dd9 | That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a24e493 | But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f98a0f0 | Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burning bush, the bush which was bright with fire and was not consumed; but afterwards, God spoke to him in a cloud. After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light. The shadows are deepening all around us. | glory mystery shadows | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 5ff9612 | Well, I think you're handsome, | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 469f2d8 | I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand thinga for them to be. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| cd52f37 | To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory. | christianity faith meaning meaningful | Madeleine L'Engle |