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Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
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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Anne Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow
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Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
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Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.
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There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.
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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.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
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Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.
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People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
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I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.
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The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
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Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.
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It is only framed in space that beauty blooms only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.
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Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.
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There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.
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The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.
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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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And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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