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Love Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

82 Love quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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Madeleine L'Engle teaches that love lives on the other side of pain and grows through vulnerability and risk. She says love is not just a feeling but a series of actions that change both people involved. She also notes that love can coexist with personal ambitions, even when they clash.

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... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

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Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

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A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

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Love is the one surprise.

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

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Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

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It was not an end, it was a beginging

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On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

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A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

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“Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.”

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

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Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

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

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I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

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Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

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I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush…

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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

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

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A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but…

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If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

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No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought…

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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of…

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If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not…

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“From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell to…

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“Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide." 'What's that?" he asked sharply. "something of…

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I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of…

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Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song.…

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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very…

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No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought…

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“But I love her. That’s the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me.…

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When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we…

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I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school…

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“Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in…

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“She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit…

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“But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves…

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When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth…

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“But a planet can also become dark because of “too strong a desire for security … the greatest evil there is.” Meg…

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“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the…

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“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together…

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On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.”

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I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,…

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My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said…

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If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

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