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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“In my dreams, I never have an age.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Believing takes practice.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

“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

“In reading we must become creators.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Small Rain

“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.”
― Madeleine L'Engle (Meg)

“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“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

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
― Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“No friendship is an accident. ”
― O. Henry, Heart of the West

“Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves