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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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Englewood
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Anne Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow
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Anne Spencer Lindbergh
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The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
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war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.
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