Maria

“So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but that I will also grow into maturity, where the experience which can be acquired only through chronology will teach me how to be more aware, open, unafraid to be vulnerable, involved, committed, to accept disagreement without feeling threatened (repeat and underline this one), to understand that I cannot take myself seriously until I stop taking myself seriously - to be, in fact, a true adult.
To be.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

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

“The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet