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Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes about turning inward to hear the spirit, treating each relationship like a small island with its own limits. She warns that chasing a single, pure connection can fragment us, and she highlights the value of growth, fluidity, and living in the present.

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One must lose one's life to find it.

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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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Fame separates you from life.

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Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

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One must lose one's life in order to find it.

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“There are certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.”

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Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

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My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

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“It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't…

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“There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.”

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Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

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“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.”

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Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

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“This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. It leads not…

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The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one…

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“Woman's life today is tending more and more toward ... 'Zerrissenheit'--torn to pieces-hood. She cannot live perpetually in 'Zerrissenheit.' She will be…

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“To ask how little, not how much, can I get along with. To say—is it necessary?—when I am tempted to add one…

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Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait…

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I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid,…

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“But the bond—the bond of romantic love is something else. It has so little to do with propinquity or habit or space…

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“All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no…

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People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life.…

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“Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75 Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling…

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I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women…

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The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad…

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We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of…

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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without…

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“One learns first of all in beach living the art of sheding;how little one can get along with, not how much…To say-is…

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For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits -…

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No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say…

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Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.…

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“It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing.…

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“For the natural selectivity of the island I will have to substitute a conscious selectivity based on another sense of values –…

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The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time…

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“My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. I cannot marry all of…

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“A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not…

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“For the natural selectivity of the island I will have to substitute a conscious selectivity based on another sense of values -…

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One can never pay in gratitude; one can pay in kind somewhere else in life.

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life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

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For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

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For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded…

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