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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.
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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When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.
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Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.
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Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?
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Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
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I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
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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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Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
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