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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.
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If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.
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If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
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Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.
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I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
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What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
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The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
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When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
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Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
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Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
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One must lose one's life to find it.
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Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.
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there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.
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there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.
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