Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.

Just understand that there's going to be some ups, there's going to be some downs.

Life is nothing without ups and downs.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.