Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle
You're going to have to do something about yourself. Nobody can do it tor you.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Love does not judge.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
- Madeleine L'Engle
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.
- Madeleine L'Engle
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray
- Madeleine L'Engle
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
- Madeleine L'Engle
If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.
- Madeleine L'Engle
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We do not love each other without changing each other.
- Madeleine L'Engle