Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
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After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
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America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
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Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
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Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
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One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
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Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
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