Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle Of Quiet Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.