850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

If you don’t recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

My dear, I’m seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren’t told that difficult or painful things won’t happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.

To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk – not safety and security – that we overcome darkness.

What you think is not the point. What you do is what’s going to count.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I’ve been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

It’s hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we’re left with a fistful of ashes.

Idiot,” Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. “Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do.

The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.