Madeleine L'Engle: Thing
Madeleine L'Engle was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on thing.
"Instruments" in The Weather of the Heart (1978)
Context: I endeavor
To hold the I as one only for the cloud
Of which I am a fragment, yet to which I'm vowed
To be responsible. Its light against my face
Reveals the witness of the stars, each in its place
Singing, each compassed by the rest,
The many joined to one, the mightiest to the least.
It is so great a thing to be an infinitesimal part
of this immeasurable orchestra the music bursts the heart,
And from this tiny plosion all the fragments join:
Joy orders the disunity until the song is one.
Penguins and Golden Calves (2003)
Context: I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Context: If our usual response to an annoying situation is a curse, we're likely to meet emergencies with a curse. In the little events of daily living we have the opportunity to condition our reflexes, which are built up out of ordinary things. And we learn to bless first of all by being blessed. My reflexes of blessing have been conditioned by my parents, my husband, my children, my friends
“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
Variant: We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
Mrs Whatsit, Ch. 1
Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
“No! andare not the same thing at all!”
Variant: Like and equal are not the same thing at all.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
Source: An Acceptable Time
“We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.”
Source: A Wind in the Door
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet