Madeleine L'Engle: Trending quotes (page 4)

“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.”

“Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.”

“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”

“Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.”

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”

“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”

“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.”

“I love, therefore I am vulnerable.”

“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”

“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”

“In my dreams, I never have an age.”

“People are more than just the way they look.”

“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”

“It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”

“If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.”

“Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.”

“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”

“When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.”

“Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?”