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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2046e8 | Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 629167e | Automatons cannot love; they can exchange their "personality packages" and hope for a fair bargain." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7ea690f | The capacity to see and--equally so--blindness are not divisible. The critical faculty of the human mind is one: To believe one can be seeing internally but blind as far as the outside world is concerned is like saying that the light of a candle gives light only in one direction and not in all. The light of the candle is reason's capacity for critical, penetrating, uncovering thought. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7563aed | Modern man thinks he loses something -- time -- when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 6c54212 | It is essential [...] that discipline should not be practiced like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behavior which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practicing it. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 8879b6e | To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| d042bd6 | A society whose members are helpless need idols. | marxism psychology sociology | Erich Fromm | |
| d3c0b4c | All teachers must face the fact that they are potential points of reference. The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| e37e7db | Charles Wallace had once again been contemplating the intricate model of the tesseract. He spoke softly to his sister. "Meg, no matter what happens, even if Dennys is right about her heart, remember that it was herself she placed, for the baby's sake, and yours, and Calvin's, and all of us--" Meg looked at him questioningly. Charles Wallace's eyes as he returned her gaze were the blue of light as it glances off a unicorn's horn, pure and cl.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8c04d31 | You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 443d262 | Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one," Mrs. Murry said. "More French toast, boys?" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f01bb7e | The name of God is so awe-full, so unpronounceable, that it has never been used by any of his creatures. Indeed, it is said that if, inadvertently, the great and terrible name of God should be spoken, the universe would explode. | name power-of-a-name | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| f83bcb8 | As Jane Austen once wrote in her diary, "I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am." And Madeleine L'Engle observed, "Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it." | Jim Denney | ||
| f8eb1ae | I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life, the amoeba, each individual particle of which has to be joined to other particles to make a whole. Then | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| e0cf7bb | Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide." 'What's that?" he asked sharply. "something of Mado's. Marguerite Dominique de la Valeur Renier." She drew out the syllables lovingly. "My husband's grandmother. Your great-great-grandmother. Love's terrible other side. The other side of the sun. You can't go around it, Theron. You have to go through it." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 88cae1c | What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3f1b30c | megaparsec? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3ce11d3 | Meg cut up some celery and mixed it in with the tuna. After a moment's hesitation she opened the refrigerator door and brought out a jar of little sweet pickles.-Though why I'm doing it for her I don't know, she thought, as she cut them up.-I don't trust her one bit. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4fd0b77 | Her father said, "You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes." "Even at a time like this?" Meg asked. The call from Calvin, the sound of her husband's voice, had nearly broken her control. "Especially at a time like this," her mother said gently." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 6e5e4e7 | nothing in the chemical world vanishes. Everything that is in the world remains in some form or other. Decaying matter turns into mould and gases and is regenerated and becomes living matter again. I had come home from school and realized that that was what must happen to the human body after death. Even if the soul went to heaven, the body would become part of the earth again, of sand and wind and trees and sea. Standing in Uncle Montgomer.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 254688b | We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 0544f59 | What would I be singing, Vicky wondered,--if I sang out my moods? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 443ccf6 | He's nothing but a deformed emanation of energy. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 04ec3a8 | Madeleine L'Engle once said, 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. | Debbie Erickson | ||
| 4e75501 | Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks. | hatred | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 54f8ce8 | Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8358e1e | if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 123844c | It isn't just in distant galaxies that strange, unreasonable things are happening. Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we've hardly been aware of it. But think of the things going on in our own country which you wouldn't have believed possible only a few years ago. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| caa3c68 | She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been. | mind-power strength | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 02c4c63 | If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| cc55541 | Adam thus bequeathed us his death, not his sin ... We do not inherit the sins of our fathers, even though we may be made to endure their punishment. Guilt cannot be transmitted. We are linked to Adam only by his memory, which becomes our own, and by his death, which foreshadows our own. Not by his sin. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2a76083 | But human beings need Deepening Places, too. And far too many never have any. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 6500059 | Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8dbee37 | You don't know how lucky you are to be loved." Meg said in a startled way, "I guess I never thought of that. I guess I just took it for granted." -- | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d2b82a0 | Euripides: Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 57b9801 | How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have--or need--answers. | children compassion difference growing-up life teaching | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 8bada92 | The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath Go.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 576248b | us when you aren't happy." "But I must know what happens to the children," the Medium said. "It's my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time. Oh, well, ho hum, I manage to keep pretty jolly, and a little snooze will do wonders for me right now. Good-bye, everyb--" and her word got lost in the general b-b-bz-z of a snore. "Ccome," Mrs Which ordered, and they followed her out of the darkness of the cave.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d5bcdbe | What you think is not the point. What you do is what's going to count. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 52a4c5e | O God, here, as so often, I cannot help. Let me not forget she is your child and your concern makes mine as nothing. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b8bd9b3 | the climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 6c08ddf | 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 was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs Whatsit could be. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d61bf4d | But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c2aa23b | Moses Come. When? Now. This way. I will guide you. Wait! Not so fast. Hurry. You. I said you. Who am I? Certainly I will be with thee. Is nothing, then, what it is? I had rather the rod had stayed a rod and not become a serpent. Come. Quickly. While the blast of my breath opens the sea. Stop. I'm thirsty. Drink water from this rock. But the rock moves on before us. Go with it and drink. I'm tired. Can't you stop for a while? You ha.. | Madeleine L'Engle |