"Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to……" — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim."
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166 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
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Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
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One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not…
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...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real…
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Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.
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Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
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