Life Quotes

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Life

The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.

Madeleine L'Engle

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Kate Ross

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, ye...

Madeleine L'Engle

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Madeleine L'Engle

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

Dan Sanders

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Madeleine L'Engle

The boy was painted in his pain

A.L. Jackson

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

Madeleine L'Engle

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Madeleine L'Engle

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

Madeleine L'Engle

Your present is what you live, but your past is what you carry.

Dan Sanders

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.

Life

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

Life

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Madeleine L'Engle

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

Life

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Madeleine L'Engle

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Despite the sale of millions of copies of "How to.." books and programmes each year, very few people take actions and put what they learn into practice. Here´s why. The "how to..." book has usually been written by someone who accomplished something ...

Jamie Smart