“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.” — Madeleine L'Engle Author Copy Share Image
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation… — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. — Madeleine L'Engle Answer Copy Share Image
“Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said. "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.” — Madeleine L'Engle Different Copy Share Image
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it. — Madeleine L'Engle Anger Copy Share Image
“Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one," Mrs. Murry said. "More French toast, boys?” — Madeleine L'Engle French toast Copy Share Image
Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named — Madeleine L'Engle Meg Copy Share Image
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
“He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, with Tiglah. Tiglah was… — Madeleine L'Engle Purity Copy Share Image
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
“As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go,… — Madeleine L'Engle Anger and pain Copy Share Image
“but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Being Copy Share Image
“There’s something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naïve. I am. I would, quite often, like… — Madeleine L'Engle Grownup Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
“Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silently through the woods, the two of… — Madeleine L'Engle Communication Copy Share Image
“I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I… — Madeleine L'Engle Exhausted Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“All teachers must face the fact that they are potential points of reference. The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,… — Madeleine L'Engle Change Copy Share Image
This is the irrational season/ Had Mary been filled with reason/ There'd have been no room/ For the child. - Madeleine L'Engle — Madeleine L'Engle Acceptance Copy Share Image
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it… — Madeleine L'Engle Hope Copy Share Image
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together… — Madeleine L'Engle Create Copy Share Image
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! — Madeleine L'Engle Amor Copy Share Image
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always… — Madeleine L'Engle Acceptance Copy Share Image
“How did all this happen? Isn’t it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone anymore! Do… — Madeleine L'Engle Feel Copy Share Image
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
“And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters.” — Madeleine L'Engle Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!” — Madeleine L'Engle Shower Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow. — Madeleine L'Engle Blessing Copy Share Image
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write. — Madeleine L'Engle Bits Copy Share Image
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle Creation Copy Share Image
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other,… — Madeleine L'Engle Agape Copy Share Image
“In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Communication Copy Share Image
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be. — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and… — Madeleine L'Engle I can Copy Share Image
“You must understand with your hearts. With the whole of yourselves, not just a fragment.” — Madeleine L'Engle Fragment Copy Share Image
