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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3cd08db | Why can't I hide it, too? Meg thought. Why do I always have to show everything? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d15934c | I suppose that depends on how you look at it," Meg said. "Usually no matter what happens people think it's my fault, even if I have nothing to do with it at all. But I'm sorry I tried to fight him. It's just been an awful week. And I'm full of bad feeling." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 59f3045 | In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that we have retained in our vocabulary the word for dangerous power, taboo, and have lost mana. | vocabulary | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| fa6fa8d | There are three ways you can live life--three again--remember that the great writers almost always do things in threes. You can live life as though it's all a cosmic accident; we're nothing but an irritating skin disease on the face of the earth. Maybe you can live your life as though everything's a bad joke. I can't." They couldn't, either, though for some of the kids who sat around the table that day not much had happened to make them thi.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 383e8e6 | Wild nights are my glory, | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7b1efb8 | He said, "There's a sermon of John Donne's I have often had cause to remember during my lifetime. He says, Other men's crosses are not my crosses. We all have our own cross to carry, and one is all most of us are able to bear. How much do you owe him, Vicky?" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 06c1430 | William James wrote: "Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. Just so, there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother sea or reservoir." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d08a0c2 | Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 17879a9 | Oh, Meg, you are a moron," Calvin said. "Don't you know you're the nicest thing that's happened to me in a long time?" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 913a458 | Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and so become healed and whole and holy -- not qualified, mind you; just holy. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 6e5c99a | Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b2f1ac6 | I am a mere unicorn." Gaudior dropped his silver lashes modestly." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f5767bb | We are the called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies. Of course we have help, and without help it would be much more difficult. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b0393c0 | Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said, "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| bfa9caf | This book that defied the categories has now endured for more than half a century, finding new readers in each generation. What is its secret? And what kind of person could produce such a book? Madeleine, c. 1920 | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4593221 | What a child doesn't realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairy tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2ad0069 | So the challenge I face with children is the redemption of adulthood. We must make it evident that maturity is the fulfillment of childhood and adolescence, not a diminishing; that it is an affirmation of life, not a denial; that it is entering fully into our essential selves. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| bc058a7 | Okay, Polly," her grandfather said. "Let's have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 940e894 | If she wanted to write Christian fiction, how was she to go about it? I told her that if she is truly and deeply a Christian, what she writes is going to be Christian, whether she mentions Jesus or not. And if she is not, in the most profound sense, Christian, then what she writes is not going to be Christian, no matter how many times she invokes the name of the Lord. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8a9d49d | An old ass knows more than a young colt | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2c6ab33 | As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f09d1e6 | It is the ability to choose which makes us human. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 487a0b8 | Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but.. | art-quote artists-heart christianity inspiration lord | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| d2f289f | Madeleine L'Engle said, "the great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."58 I think the same is true for churches. Each one stays with us, even after we've left, adding layer after layer to the palimpsest of our faith." | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| 87a30b5 | The simple and honest process of letting people know that discomfort is normal, it's going to happen, why it happens, and why it's important, reduces anxiety, fear, and shame. Periods | Brené Brown | ||
| 716fd04 | Technology, for instance, has become a kind of imposter for connection, making us believe we're connected when we're really not--at least not in the ways we need to be. | Brené Brown | ||
| a5afa69 | Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight. | Brené Brown | ||
| 8674281 | There is an incredibly important, uncomfortable, and brave discussion that every single leader and every organization in the world should be having about privilege. | Brené Brown | ||
| a1569a0 | What I've learned through my work and what I heard that night in Newtown makes one thing clear: Not enough of us know how to sit in pain with others. Worse, our discomfort shows up in ways that can hurt people and reinforce their isolation. I have started to believe that crying with strangers in person could save the world. | Brené Brown | ||
| 36e4aca | But there's no equation where taking risks, braving uncertainty, and opening ourselves up to emotional exposure equals weakness. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7fc7f33 | If you're comfortable, I'm not teaching and you're not learning. | Brené Brown | ||
| 720f5be | The majority of shame researchers agree that the difference between shame and guilt is best understood as the differences between "I am bad" (shame) and "I did something bad" (guilt). Shame is about who we are and guilt is about our behaviors." | Brené Brown | ||
| 8a6f6b0 | On page 145, I defined belonging as the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. One of the biggest surprises in this research was learning that fitting in and belonging are not the same thing. In fact, fitting in is one of the greatest barriers to belonging. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be in order to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we .. | Brené Brown | ||
| cbbafd9 | are certainly other causes of illness, numbing, and hurt, but the absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering. | Brené Brown | ||
| 045f938 | Killing Us Softly 4,6 and Katz's DVD is titled Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity.7) As | Brené Brown | ||
| 689396e | Experience and success don't give you easy passage through the middle space of struggle. They only grant you a little grace, a grace that whispers, "This is part of the process. Stay the course." Experience doesn't create even a single spark of light in the darkness of the middle space. It only instills in you a little bit of faith in your ability to navigate the dark. The middle is messy, but it's also where the magic happens." | Brené Brown | ||
| 3842479 | Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness--an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. | Brené Brown | ||
| c07adf3 | I Wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred. | Brené Brown | ||
| b1bbf8c | Perfectionism didn't lead to results. It led to peanut butter. | Brené Brown | ||
| ddf6552 | THE phrase Daring Greatly is from Theodore Roosevelt's speech "Citizenship in a Republic." The speech, sometimes referred to as "The Man in the Arena," was delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910. This is the passage that made the speech famous: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man .. | Brené Brown | ||
| 70b3b96 | Children who use more shame self-talk (I am bad) versus guilt self-talk (I did something bad) struggle mightily with issues of self-worth and self-loathing. Using shame to parent teaches children that they are not inherently worthy of love. Shame | Brené Brown | ||
| 4d53b2e | The shield required that I stay small and quiet behind it so as not to draw attention to my imperfections and vulnerabilities. It was exhausting. | Brené Brown | ||
| 8c4e45f | One of the most profound responses to this exercise came out of a focus group I did with a group of leaders at West Point. One officer pushed me a little on "the accuracy of the intel" and kept asking, "You are 100 percent certain that this person is doing the best he can?" After I answered yes two or three times, the officer took a deep breath and said, "Then move the rock." I was confused. "What do you mean by 'move the rock'?" He shook h.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 6b4fc38 | Personally, I have learned that when I'm experiencing shame, I often act out in ways that are inconsistent with who I want to be. | Brené Brown |