With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful. — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. — Madeleine L'Engle Future Copy Share Image
“The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.” — Madeleine L'Engle Language Copy Share Image
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.” — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God… — Madeleine L'Engle Creator Copy Share Image
“It isn’t just in distant galaxies that strange, unreasonable things are happening. Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we’ve… — Madeleine L'Engle Unreason Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song.… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
“She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit… — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in… — Madeleine L'Engle Birth Copy Share Image
“A great ring of pure & endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart And breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.… — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“I've always thought about the theatre like a Christmas tree, all shining and bright with beautiful ornaments. But now it seems like… — Madeleine L'Engle Christmas tree Copy Share Image
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
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