Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 9

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• Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

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  Grief, Emotional, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

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  Adventure, Sometimes

  Madeleine L'Engle, Luci Shaw (2004). “WinterSong: Christmas Readings”, p.51, Regent College Publishing

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• Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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  Courage, Stories, Alive

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• There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

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  Failure, Exhausting

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2011

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• Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

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  Life, How You Feel, Feels

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.192, Macmillan

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• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

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  Choices, Ability, Ability To Choose

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2011

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• Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

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  Real, Artist, Maturity

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• If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

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  Art, Writing, May

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.102, Convergent Books

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• When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

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  Artist, Way, Interfere

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.22, Convergent Books

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• Like and equal are two entirely different things.

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  Two, Different, Language

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.64, Obelix Books

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• I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

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  Wanted, Knows

  "Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1996.

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• The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

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  Trying, Littles, Way

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• The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

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  Character, Personality, Problem

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

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• the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

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  Letting Go, Discovery, Reason

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.137, Macmillan

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• Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

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  Education, Teaching, Asking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.113, Convergent Books

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• It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

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  Silence, Way, Vibrations

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.38, Macmillan

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• My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.

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  Matter, Painful, Difficult

  Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “An Acceptable Time”, p.224, Macmillan

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• She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

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  Stars, Believe, Seems

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.115, Macmillan

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• We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

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  Spring, Past, Rocks

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• I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

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  Summer, Morning, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

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  Prayer, Self, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.23, Convergent Books

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• If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

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  Children, Book, Not Good Enough

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

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  Morning, Queens, Believe

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.69, Convergent Books

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• It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.

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  Two, People, Needs

  Madeleine L'Engle (1968). “Prelude”

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• She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

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  Grandma, Past, Rocks

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.259, Open Road Media

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