“Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from An Acceptable Time
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from An Acceptable Time
“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from An Acceptable Time
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from An Acceptable Time
“Okay, Polly,” her grandfather said. “Let’s have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from An Acceptable Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Born place: in New York City, New York, The United States
Born date November 29, 1918
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“الفرد في كل نشاط تلقائي يعانق العالم. فلا تظل نفسه الفردية لم تُقضَ فحسب, بل هي تصبح اكثر قوة واشد صلابة. فالنفس تكون قوية بقدر ما تكون نشطة. لا يوجد اية قوة اصيلة في التملك كتملك, لا في الملكية المادية ولا في الصفات الذهنية مثل الانفعالات او الافكار. كما انه لا يوجد ايضا قوة في استخدام واستغلال الموضوعات, ان ما نستخدمه ليس ملكنا بكل بساطة لاننا نستخدمه. ان ما هو ملكنا هو فقط الذي نرتبط به بنشاطنا الخلاق سواء كان هذا شخصا او موضوعا غير حي. ان تلك الصفات الناجمة عن نشاطنا التلقائي هي وحدها التي تعطي قوة للنفس ومن ثم تكوّن اساس التكامل. والعجز عن السلوك تلقائيا والتعبير عما يشعر به المرء ويفكر فيه بأصالة والضرورة الناجمة لتقديم نفس زائفة للآخرين وللانسان هي كلها جذر الشعور بالدونية والضعف. وسواء كنا ندري هذا ام لا, فلا شيء يدعونا الى الخجل اكثر من الا نكون انفسنا, ولا يوجد شيء يمكن ان يعطينا فخارا وسعادة اكثر من التفكير والشعور والقول بما هو نحن.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“I want every inch of you trembling, fucking shaking, begging for me to take you, Ry, because fuck if I won’t be doing the same. I want to be your sigh, your moan, your cry out in pleasure and every fucking sound in between.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.”
― Scarlett Thomas, quote from The End of Mr. Y
“Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading around among people, don't take it more seriously than any of the other things you find on their lips. Think: your name has turned bad, and get rid of it. Take on another, any other, so that God can call you in the night. And conceal it from everyone.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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