Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
Interpretation
The quote humorously highlights the struggle of maintaining one’s dignity after a setback.
Madeleine L'Engle's quote captures the humorous and ironic challenge of trying to uphold one's sense of pride or dignity after experiencing a humiliating or painful situation. The phrase 'sprained dignity' suggests that just as we physically recover from an injury, we also have to find a way to regain our emotional and social standing, often through resilience, humor, and self-acceptance.
In practice
This quote could be used during a toast at a gathering to emphasize the importance of humility after failure.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.
Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?
I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.
My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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