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Aircraft Pilot Inspirational Quotes (4819)

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It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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 you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Love is a force.... It is not a result it is a cause. It is not a product it produces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. In love-ness is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about happy and unhappy marriages.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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