An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.… — Madeleine L'Engle Bird Copy Share Image
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you,” Mrs Whatsit said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Christ Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.” — Madeleine L'Engle Anger Copy Share Image
“Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who… — Madeleine L'Engle Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Ambiguity Copy Share Image
The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light,… — Madeleine L'Engle Barefoot Copy Share Image
“Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?" "Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are… — Madeleine L'Engle Arrogance 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 Death Copy Share Image
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn… — Madeleine L'Engle Ants Copy Share Image
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female)… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for… — Madeleine L'Engle Action Copy Share Image
I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Neither sadist nor masochist, I still Must turn to violence: break, be broken. False image of myself I beg you: kill. Help… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
“When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or… — Madeleine L'Engle Compulsion Copy Share Image
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is… — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
“Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. “The… — Madeleine L'Engle Good intentions Copy Share Image
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… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends. — Madeleine L'Engle Balance Copy Share Image
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle Bride Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. — Madeleine L'Engle Honest Copy Share Image
“Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For… — Madeleine L'Engle Heaven 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… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character… — Madeleine L'Engle Character Copy Share Image
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are… — Madeleine L'Engle Emotion Copy Share Image
“Remember, he hasn’t much imagination. Or, rather, it’s been frozen for a long while and hasn’t had time to thaw.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do… — Madeleine L'Engle Artist Copy Share Image
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