Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Suicidal

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

• We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Children, Fall

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 03, 2016

• Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Hurt, Children, Growing Up

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.65, Convergent Books

• Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Beautiful, Growing Up, People

• To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Drama, Grows

  Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.55, WaterBrook

• To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Maturity, Alive

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2010

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