Madeleine L'engle Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Madeleine L'engle quotes, Madeleine L'engle sayings, and Madeleine L'engle proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. Madeleine L'Engle
People are more than just the way they look. Madeleine L'Engle
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts. Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything. Madeleine L'Engle
People are more than just the way they look. Madeleine L'Engle
If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. Madeleine L'Engle
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.. Madeleine L'Engle
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. Madeleine L'Engle
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. Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. Madeleine L'Engle
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. Madeleine L'Engle
A new year can begin only because the old year ends. Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. Madeleine L'Engle
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts. Madeleine L'Engle
A new year can begin only because the old year ends. Madeleine L'Engle
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. Madeleine L'Engle
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. Madeleine L'Engle
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means. Madeleine L'Engle
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. Madeleine L'Engle
But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential. Madeleine L'Engle
Life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met. Madeleine L'Engle
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Madeleine L'Engle
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. Madeleine L'Engle
The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. Madeleine L'Engle
Experiment is the mother of knowledge. Madeleine L'Engle
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. Madeleine L'Engle
I looked at this tiny perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A giant gush of love flooded out of me.  Madeleine L'Engle