Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Compassion, People

  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.33, Open Road Media

• If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Fall, Compassion, Care

• Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Compassion, Intellect, Feels

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2012

• 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'Engle

  Laughter, Selfish, Real

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle (Section 1.10), 1972.

• Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Taken, Mean, Artist

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.33, Open Road Media

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