You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of moderation in life, suggesting that balance is often overlooked.
Madeleine L'Engle's quote reflects on the concept of moderation, implying that many people struggle to find a balance between extremes. The reference to a 'happy medium' suggests that achieving this balance is crucial for happiness and fulfillment, and the speaker expresses doubt about whether the listener will ever grasp this important lesson.
In practice
In a discussion about work-life balance, this quote can serve as a reminder of the importance of moderation.
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.
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.
People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.
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