I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
Madeleine L'EngleWe do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
Madeleine L'EngleLife, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
Madeleine L'EngleI would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.
Madeleine L'Engle