"Why is life speeded up so? Why are……" — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?"
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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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So many things we love are you!
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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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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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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
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"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come!…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never…
— Diana Nyad
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
— Dorothy Gilman
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice…
— Anthony Trollope
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One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my…
— Stephen King
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most…
— Eric Burdon
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Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your…
— Robert Breault
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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