Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

The decision to go to Milan, as everyone knows, made me mature as a man. It was a big chance and perhaps too big for the man I was at the time.

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me.

I'm passionate about transformation.

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.

Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

You will never ever be the same again!

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.