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Life Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

54 Life quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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Faith is what makes life bearable, even when tragedies and ambiguities appear. Love is described as the oxygen we breathe and the sun that lights our universe. Creativity and stories are called living fire that brightens darkness and lets us write our own sonnet of life.

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

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A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

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“All of life is a story”

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I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

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“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...”

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The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

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“A life form which can’t adapt doesn’t last very long.”

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“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.”

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Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which…

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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…

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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write…

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“It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh,…

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It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually…

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“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the…

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I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

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Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true…

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“Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to…

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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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Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of…

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We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have…

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life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring,…

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I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. .…

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As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up,…

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“Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story…

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There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us…

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“But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.”

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“Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.”

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Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

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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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If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness…

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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart…

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“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited…

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

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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…

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We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief…

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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,…

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“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

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

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