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Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s nine brief musings on Want feel like a quiet notebook entry on a plane. They’re short, but each one captures the subtle ways longing can steer our thoughts, offering a gentle companion for anyone tracing the contours of ambition.

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I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

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But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

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God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.

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It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

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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…

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I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry…

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People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want…

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I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form…

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...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself.…

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“It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.”

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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at…

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“One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even something to…

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It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or…

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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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“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three.…

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Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

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