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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (246)

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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
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Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
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I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.
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Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
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Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
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Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.
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How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different to understand that like is not equal to experiment to laugh to love to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.
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Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.
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We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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You learn to write by doing it.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
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I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
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Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing it often follows it.
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We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.
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When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.
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If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.
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To refuse to respond is in itself a response.
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I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
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But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.
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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. It's everybody.
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And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.
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In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
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