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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (246)

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Yes! I dare disturb the universe.
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One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
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you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
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Art should communicate with as many people as possible.
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A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
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I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.
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A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.
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I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.
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If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it it is inclusive, never exclusive.
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I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
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I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.
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When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
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When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.
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I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, This is what I believe. Finished. What I believe is alive ... and open to growth
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Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.
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We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
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People are more than just the way they look.
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Only a fool is not afraid.
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There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
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You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children
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