Madeleine L'Engle Quote

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.

I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.

The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.

A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it.

Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.