Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
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In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two…
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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 and possessions, the shell of…
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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 how much.
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...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the…
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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 of life achieve it.
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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
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Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and…
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It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.
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Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.
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Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
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I think best with a pencil in my hand.
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I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
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One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
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Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.
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