Quotes about Resilience
Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide. 'What's that? he asked sharply. something of Mado's. Marguerite Dominique de la Valeur Renier. She drew out the syllables lovingly. My husband's grandmother. Your great-great-grandmother. Love's terrible other side. The other side of the sun. You can't go around it, Theron. You have to go through it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Joy is what has made the pain bearable and, in the end, creative rather than destructive.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?
— Madeleine L'Engle
But as she had felt she was beyond fear, so now she was beyond screaming.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Don't be afraid to be afraid.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Euripides. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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