Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 14

Quotes about:

• Are anybody's parents typical?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Parent, Typical, Parenthood

  4 Copy quote

• The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mind, Naked, Instruments

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wind in the Door”, p.98, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Regret, Future, Past

  Twitter post from Apr 29, 2011

  4 Copy quote

• The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Coercion, Way

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

  4 Copy quote

• Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Important, Definitions

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.30, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

• Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Choices, Dare, Courses

  4 Copy quote

• When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Art, Children

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

  4 Copy quote

• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Creativity, Perfect

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

  16 Copy quote

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Teamwork, Jobs, Book

  "Please Welcome...Sharon Hinck". www.wherethemapends.com. October, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Lonely, Space, Earth

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Aug 25, 2016

  4 Copy quote

• In my dreams, I never have an age.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Age

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2017

  7 Copy quote

• All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Drug, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2012

  4 Copy quote

• Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mother, Experiments

  Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.55, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

• That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Play, Way

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2017

  4 Copy quote

• I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Machines, Answers, Kind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.299, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Men, Forever

  Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.158, Macmillan

  6 Copy quote

• The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Deep Thought, Answers

  Twitter post from Sep 08, 2016

  5 Copy quote

• One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Humble, Humility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.9, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

• Art is communication.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Communication, Art Is

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.166, Convergent Books

  4 Copy quote

• We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stories, Shows, Turns

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

• Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, People, Meg

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Summer, Alive, Knows

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

  4 Copy quote

• If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Fate, Giving, Sock

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.89, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Hurt, Hard, Ifs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.93, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Unhappy, Sometimes, How To Be Happy

  Madeleine L'Engle, Linda Beech (1997). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

Page 14 of 18

First

← Prev

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin