"Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period……" — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego."
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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166 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle,…
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Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .
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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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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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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst…
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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is…
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Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in…
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
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