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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (246)

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When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
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The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.
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Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .
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Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
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If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
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Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
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Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.
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We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
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But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
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If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.
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She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.
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Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
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I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.
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wherever there's laughter, there is heaven
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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...
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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 the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
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It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.
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For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.
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I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.
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