Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One cannot collect...

One cannot collect...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if...

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I understand why...

I understand why...

I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal...

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We tend not...

We tend not...

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...

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Only when a...

Only when a...

Only when a tree has fallen can you take a measure of it. It is the same with a man.

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If one talks...

If one talks...

If one talks to more than four people it is an audience, and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an...

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I do not...

I do not...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone...

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If you surrender...

If you surrender...

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

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I believe that...

I believe that...

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...

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It takes as...

It takes as...

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

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Duration is not...

Duration is not...

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Source: Gift From the Sea,...

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The sea does...

The sea does...

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open,...

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When one is...

When one is...

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

Source: Gift From...

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One can get...

One can get...

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how...

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Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material...

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There are no...

There are no...

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier...

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When one is...

When one is...

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Source: In...

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The loneliness you...

The loneliness you...

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's...

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Love is a...

Love is a...

Love is a force. It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces. It is a power, like money or...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

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The most exhausting...

The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Source:...

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