Quotes about Balance
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes.
- Madeleine L'Engle
If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
- Madeleine L'Engle
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be underdeveloped in every other way.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create
- Madeleine L'Engle
The breaking of the harmony was pain, was brutal anguish, but the harmony kept rising above the pain, and the joy would pulse with light, and light and dark once more knew each other, and were part of the joy.
- Madeleine L'Engle