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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 08ef0bf | 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. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 96f2fb4 | Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories. | stories | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 3aa6ebb | When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where colours are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b935718 | The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity, but they would have them conform to the secular world, with its dirty devices. The world of fairy tale, fantasy, myth, is inimical to the secular world, and in total opposition to it, for it is interested not in limited laboratory proofs but in truth. | fantasy myth truth | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| a797ec4 | we would, all of us, be less than we are if it weren't for those we love and who've loved us who have died. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ae08eac | To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8ac66b7 | The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 724fc72 | Max had a book with her and began leafing through it, looking for something. "There's a passage our conversation reminds me of ..." "What?" "In the Upanishads -- a series of Sanskrit works which are part of the Veda. Here it is Pol, listen: In this body, in this town of Spirit, there is a little house shaped like a lotus, and in that house there is a little space. There is as much in that little space within the heart as there is in the who.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 040ab5b | Remember--the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.[1] --Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water | Emily P. Freeman | ||
| de76b9e | More personally, my intellect is a stumbling block to much that makes life worth living: laughter, love; a wiling acceptance of being created. The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. | intellect intellectualism love rationalism | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| f8c802b | Stew. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| e274eef | work | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 5a6f993 | On its surface this is a book about three children who fight an evil force threatening their planet. But it is really about a more primal battle all human beings face, to respect, defend, and love themselves. When Meg pulls the ultimate weapon from her emotional arsenal to fight, for her little brother and for good, it is a great moment, not just for her, but for every reader who has ever felt overlooked, confused, alone. It has been more t.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| bfed89e | square | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8178ea2 | working | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 38f4184 | she stopped herself from being hurt long, long ago by not letting herself love anybody or anything. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9cdc94e | sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraithlike | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7103658 | But what is real? In the Bible we are constantly being given glimpses of a reality quite different from that taught in school, even in Sunday school. And these glimpses are not given to the qualified; there's the marvel. It may be that the qualified feel no need of them. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 24020ac | If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear. But if it is not true, if it is man imposing strictures on God (as did the men of the Christian establishment of Galileo's day), then I want to be open to God, not to what man says about God. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| adfc118 | Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by. 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.... Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if w.. | darkness evil good growing-up inspiration light raising-children | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| dcb01b8 | It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical no.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f078711 | your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1fd1fb1 | The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we 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. | challenges courage existence mistakes speaking teachers teaching | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 01acc59 | But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 134074f | But I have to accept the fact that I am often unwise; that I am not always loving; that I make mistakes; that I am, in fact, human. And as Christians we are not meant to be less human than other people, but more human, just as Jesus of Nazareth was more human. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d880a30 | And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1b91c1e | And perhaps if we ever have real equality with all our glorious differences, the language itself will make the appropriate changes. For language, like a story or a painting, is alive. Ultimately it will be the artists who will change the language (as Chaucer did, as Dante did, as Joyce did), not the committees. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ce352d1 | One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me. | imagination storytelling what-ifs writers writing | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| c70d185 | Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free. | imagination l-engle ridicule walking-on-water | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 97131c9 | The emotion you continually feed is the one that will dominate your life. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4a8d1be | We spend a trillion dollars a year on food, but it's only 9.4 percent of our expendable income, the lowest percentage of any country on record. | Mark Bittman | ||
| bd05180 | America's food system is broken. | Mark Bittman | ||
| a9e037e | Regina Schrambling is both hero and villain. My favorite villain, actually. The former New York Times and LA Times food writer and blogger is easily the Angriest Person Writing About Food. Her weekly blog entries at gastropoda.com are a deeply felt, episodic unburdening, a venting of all her bitterness, rage, contempt, and disappointment with a world that never seems to live up to her expectations. She hates nearly everything--and everybody.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8c683a1 | As Michael Pollan says, "a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it's not really food")" | Mark Bittman | ||
| 55f5293 | I believe that the key to self-sufficiency is breaking free of the mindset that someone, somewhere, owes you something or will come to your rescue. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9024f6c | Don't pay any attention to what they write about you, just measure it in inches."--Andy Warhol" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c19ed14 | People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." -Steve Jobs" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0d47ee7 | There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant." -Ralph Waldo Emerson" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4341e85 | Many a false step was made by standing still." -Fortune cookie" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 35a4415 | Must-watch documentary The Gatekeepers (2012) | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 682e330 | The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. I always say, "If you want to become a billionaire, invent something that will allow people to indulge their own Resistance." Somebody did invent it. It's called the Internet. Social media. That wonderland where we can flit from one superficial, jerkoff distraction to another, always remaining on the surface, never" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 79c6de4 | Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you." | control dreams freedom goals happiness work | Timothy Ferriss | |
| e2e8e29 | The means of learning are abundant--it's the desire to learn that's scarce. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eb3244c | If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. | Timothy Ferriss |