Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Knowledge, Understanding, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2016

• Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Attitude, Mean, Understanding

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

• Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Giving, Understanding, Needs

• A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Home, Self

• The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lying, Believe, Understanding

• For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Loss, Past, Understanding

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.75, Convergent Books

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