This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
Madeleine L'EngleIt was not an end, it was a beginning.
Madeleine L'EngleBeing alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp
Madeleine L'EngleTag: life-experience life-lesson
Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent as possible, and get on with life. - A Severed Wasp
Madeleine L'EngleTag: life-experience life-lessons
Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.
Madeleine L'EngleIf we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: life death mortality awareness
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
Madeleine L'EngleThe foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath choses the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And bade things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: inspirational religious
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals
Madeleine L'EngleTag: identity philosophy-of-life
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