Quotes about Balance
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.
— 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
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