“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. .… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story… — 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 see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
