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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (246)

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artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.
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On the other side of pain, there is still love.
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For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals
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Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.
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A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.
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Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.
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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 don't believe in him.
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People become trustworthy when they are trusted.
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Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.
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Meg, I give you your faults. My faults! Meg cried. Your faults. But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults! Yes, Mrs. Whatsit said. However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.
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I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.
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We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.
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The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
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Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
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Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.
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I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.
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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
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We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.
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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 well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
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As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.
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When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
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You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
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It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
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