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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 that are not seen are eternal.

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 that are not seen are eternal.

Madeleine L'Engle
Philosophical, Looks, Temporal Things
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.100, Macmillan

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mother, Experiments
Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.55, Penguin UK

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hurt, Hard, Ifs
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.93, Macmillan

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Madeleine L'Engle
Fate, Giving, Sock
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.89, Macmillan

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

Madeleine L'Engle
Summer, Alive, Knows
Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

Madeleine L'Engle
Thinking, People, Meg
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

Madeleine L'Engle
Stories, Shows, Turns
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

Art is communication.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Communication, Art Is
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.166, Convergent Books

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

Madeleine L'Engle
Book, Writing

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

Madeleine L'Engle
Thinking, Able, Way
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.35, Convergent Books

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Play, Way
Twitter post from Mar 29, 2017

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Creativity, Perfect
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Religion, Matter
Twitter post from Jul 14, 2011

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

Madeleine L'Engle
Thinking, Sometimes, Speak
Twitter post from Feb 16, 2011

Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

Madeleine L'Engle
Reality, Thinking, Television Commercials
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

Madeleine L'Engle
Writing, Half, Littles
Twitter post from May 01, 2016

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hurt, Pain, People

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

Madeleine L'Engle
Broken, Promise, Way
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.46, Open Road Media

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, People, Should
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.44, Convergent Books

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

Madeleine L'Engle
Chaos, Impossibility
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Community, Quality
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.153, Open Road Media

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

Madeleine L'Engle
Our World, Confusion, Shadow
Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.152, Open Road Media

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
God, Believe, Names
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.91, Open Road Media

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mind, Use, Way
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Optimism, Tragedy
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.94, Open Road Media

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