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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
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I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.
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When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.
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# I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.
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No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?
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One must lose one's life to find it.
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My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.
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How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
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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 present and accepting it as it is now.
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No new sect ever had humor no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.
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One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
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I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.
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Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.
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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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Too many people, too many demands, too much to do competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.
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Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
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For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
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The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
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... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.
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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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