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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (247)

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Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
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We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
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Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.
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Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
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And joy is always a promise.
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The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
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The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
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We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.
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When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
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Believing takes practice.
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Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.
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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 that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.
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Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.
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Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.
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We do not love each other without changing each other.
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God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
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For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
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It was not an end, it was a beginging
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If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.
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My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
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Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made
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